Bottle acquired in the late 90s. Sticker NYWINESCHRISTIES Private Source. Great fill and cork came out in perfect shape. Beautiful color and not bricked out even on the edges. A nice claret, great aroma and smooth all the way to the end. Lovely bottle.
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Very developed, really translucent brick-orange color with clear, colorless rim. The nose is pungent with old aromas of cardboard and a hint of earth. The wine is medium-bodied, smooth and quite acid-driven with rather dull flavors of earth, paper and a hint of smoke. The tannins are modest to medium. The finish is dry, short and earthy with flavors of paper, smoke and leather.
We really didn't reach any consesus whether this wine was corked, completely overaged or both, but at least it wasn't really drinkable. I think that the wine was just completely dead with only oxidative earthy aromas, but some said that if the wine wasn't corked, it was a pretty good TCA-simulator.
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12/31/2018 - magnumfla Likes this wine: 89 Points
Bottle acquired in the late 90s. Sticker NYWINESCHRISTIES Private Source.
Great fill and cork came out in perfect shape. Beautiful color and not bricked out even on the edges. A nice claret, great aroma and smooth all the way to the end. Lovely bottle.
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1/24/2018 - Lype wrote: flawed
Corked
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1/24/2018 - forceberry wrote: flawed
Very developed, really translucent brick-orange color with clear, colorless rim. The nose is pungent with old aromas of cardboard and a hint of earth. The wine is medium-bodied, smooth and quite acid-driven with rather dull flavors of earth, paper and a hint of smoke. The tannins are modest to medium. The finish is dry, short and earthy with flavors of paper, smoke and leather.
We really didn't reach any consesus whether this wine was corked, completely overaged or both, but at least it wasn't really drinkable. I think that the wine was just completely dead with only oxidative earthy aromas, but some said that if the wine wasn't corked, it was a pretty good TCA-simulator.
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10/27/2005 - Kuban wrote:
Deep dark brick, light rim. Lovely sweet black fruit. Subtle, lovley warm fruit, great length. VG/Ex
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