Brambly red fruit core. Pours a darker red with some youthful violet overtones. Palate of this wine is brambleberry cola. Just delicious. Finishes with a little black pepper, but just enough to make the food you are enjoying this with even more enjoyable. Tonight this was served with chicken thighs, Italian cut green beans and Greek white rice. Still finishes with quite a bit of astringency, making me think that the one 2014 that I have is probably much more ready to go than the remainder of these 2015's, although if you do have to pop the cork on these I would definitely tell you that you probably need to decant this wine for 1 to 2 hours before enjoying.
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Brambly red fruit core, medium+ bodied wine with a touch of red cherry cola and tobacco. Finishes with a medium amount of pepper. A little bit of stuff neutral oak tannin but nothing that detracted from the wine. This wine will go with a host of foods. Went well with a baked paprika chicken and banza chickpea rice and went well with a charcuterie aperitif. No secondary or tertiary characters noted here, so this wine is good to hold or enjoy with minimal decant!
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11/17/2023 - Adamb2 Likes this wine: 90 Points
Drank with Bruce and epic streaks with Madeira truffle sauce. Double yummy.
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7/24/2023 - mflesh wrote:
Brambly red fruit core. Pours a darker red with some youthful violet overtones. Palate of this wine is brambleberry cola. Just delicious. Finishes with a little black pepper, but just enough to make the food you are enjoying this with even more enjoyable. Tonight this was served with chicken thighs, Italian cut green beans and Greek white rice. Still finishes with quite a bit of astringency, making me think that the one 2014 that I have is probably much more ready to go than the remainder of these 2015's, although if you do have to pop the cork on these I would definitely tell you that you probably need to decant this wine for 1 to 2 hours before enjoying.
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7/24/2023 - mflesh wrote:
Brambly red fruit core, medium+ bodied wine with a touch of red cherry cola and tobacco. Finishes with a medium amount of pepper. A little bit of stuff neutral oak tannin but nothing that detracted from the wine. This wine will go with a host of foods. Went well with a baked paprika chicken and banza chickpea rice and went well with a charcuterie aperitif. No secondary or tertiary characters noted here, so this wine is good to hold or enjoy with minimal decant!
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8/12/2020 - TRueNOLA wrote: 91 Points
Solid wine and depth, but came off a bit...watery?
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8/1/2020 - tomoem wrote: 91 Points
Wow.... This is rich viscous and even spice laden. Totally surprised that this is a merlot.
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2/15/2020 - Tonythefish wrote: 91 Points
See prior notes
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12/15/2019 - Tonythefish Likes this wine: 92 Points
See prior notes - drinking well right now
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8/13/2019 - Tonythefish wrote: 91 Points
See prior notes - back to normal
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6/28/2019 - YankeeRobio Likes this wine: 95 Points
Fantastic wine, super smooth
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3/15/2019 - jswine15 Likes this wine: 90 Points
A bit disappointing
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3/14/2019 - YankeeRobio Likes this wine: 94 Points
great wine
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1/26/2019 - Tonythefish Likes this wine: 90 Points
See prior notes, but this bottle did not have the same fruit and seemed a bit off. Even tried decanting to get air on it but did not change
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1/19/2019 - YankeeRobio Likes this wine: 95 Points
One of the best Napa Merlot's
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12/21/2018 - Tonythefish wrote: 92 Points
Baking spices, black pepper, dark fruit. Very enjoyable
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11/23/2018 - YankeeRobio Likes this wine: 95 Points
Licorice, dark sweet cherries, tobacco, apple pie. Really nice wine
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11/18/2018 - Zetterman Likes this wine: 92 Points
Decanted. Much better day 2
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