* Clear, medium, lemon, with petillance (fiz) on the pour, streams of fine bubbles, and watery legs * Clean, medium intensity youthful nose of floral, blossoms, honeysuckle, stone fruits, and slight hints of lychee and rose * sweet, medium acidity, low alcohol, medium creamy & fizzy body, medium+ intensity flavors of ripe stone fruits, honey with sweet medium+ finish * very good moscato, drink now
Note: tasted with Manchego Cheese and Red Grapes
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* Clear, deep, purple with lots of fast legs * Clean, medium+ intensity youthful nose of blackberry, black cherry, blueberry, some plum, sweet spice (coconut?), spicy (black pepper?), chocolate, slight cedar? and alcohol * Dry-ripe fruit, medium+ acidity, soft medium+ tannins, high slight burning alcohol, full body, medium+ intensity of blackberry, blueberry, other black fruits, and slightly peppery with medium finish * Good, can drink now, slightly unbalanced with the high alcohol
Tasted with lamb chop and couscous.
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* Clear, medium, ruby with fast legs in appearance * Clean, medium+ intensity with developing nose blackberry, black cherry, leather, peppery spice, vanilla * Dry, medium+ acidity, smooth medium tannins, medium+ alcohol, medium+ body with flavors of blackberry, black cherry * Good. Can drink now, but have a few more years of development.
Notes: Drank with lamb chops over couscous. Bottle had a bit of tartrate crystals on the cork. Decanted via an aerator and drank immediately after. Nose a bit closed at the beginning, but opened up as dinner went on. Very easy drinking with fruit-forward flavors and smooth tannin and oak. Very straight forward fruity syrah.
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2012 La Spinetta (Rivetti) Moscato d'Asti Bricco Quaglia
7/21/2014 - FHLin Likes this wine: 91 Points
* Clear, medium, lemon, with petillance (fiz) on the pour, streams of fine bubbles, and watery legs
* Clean, medium intensity youthful nose of floral, blossoms, honeysuckle, stone fruits, and slight hints of lychee and rose
* sweet, medium acidity, low alcohol, medium creamy & fizzy body, medium+ intensity flavors of ripe stone fruits, honey with sweet medium+ finish
* very good moscato, drink now
Note: tasted with Manchego Cheese and Red Grapes
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2011 Mollydooker Shiraz Blue Eyed Boy
7/20/2014 - FHLin Likes this wine: 89 Points
* Clear, deep, purple with lots of fast legs
* Clean, medium+ intensity youthful nose of blackberry, black cherry, blueberry, some plum, sweet spice (coconut?), spicy (black pepper?), chocolate, slight cedar? and alcohol
* Dry-ripe fruit, medium+ acidity, soft medium+ tannins, high slight burning alcohol, full body, medium+ intensity of blackberry, blueberry, other black fruits, and slightly peppery with medium finish
* Good, can drink now, slightly unbalanced with the high alcohol
Tasted with lamb chop and couscous.
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2009 Marsden Estate Syrah
7/13/2014 - FHLin Likes this wine: 87 Points
* Clear, medium, ruby with fast legs in appearance
* Clean, medium+ intensity with developing nose blackberry, black cherry, leather, peppery spice, vanilla
* Dry, medium+ acidity, smooth medium tannins, medium+ alcohol, medium+ body with flavors of blackberry, black cherry
* Good. Can drink now, but have a few more years of development.
Notes: Drank with lamb chops over couscous. Bottle had a bit of tartrate crystals on the cork. Decanted via an aerator and drank immediately after. Nose a bit closed at the beginning, but opened up as dinner went on. Very easy drinking with fruit-forward flavors and smooth tannin and oak. Very straight forward fruity syrah.
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