Consistent with the last 2 bottles opened. The fruit has faded on this wine, and you are left with a potable but unimpressive sweet wine that is very average. When this was young, the fruit matched the sweetness and it was in harmony. Apparently, this is the kind of wine you should drink within 5 years of the vintage.
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"Dessert" Wine Tasting (Prior Lake, MN): And the continued decline in my scores of this wine continues. I think it's more that I no longer have a taste for such overtly sweet wines, and not a general decline in the wine itself. This is rich, thick, and just plain sweet.
Drank after Thanksgiving dinner with a pumpkin roll - a meh pairing. I'm not sure if this wine is in decline or my palate is just changing, but I wasn't as excited with this as I was before. It was still sweet but with almost enough acidity to balance it out, but it lacked a great deal of complexity.
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Wow, the one I had 1.5 years ago was so much better. This one was just very middle of the road. Very sweet, lacking interest. Now I'm wishing I'd bought less. :(
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4/30/2018 - galewskj wrote: 88 Points
Consistent with the last 2 bottles opened. The fruit has faded on this wine, and you are left with a potable but unimpressive sweet wine that is very average. When this was young, the fruit matched the sweetness and it was in harmony. Apparently, this is the kind of wine you should drink within 5 years of the vintage.
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11/10/2015 - galewskj wrote: 88 Points
Consistent with my last night. Nice but uneventful sweet wine. Sauternes it is NOT.
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2/28/2015 - GoBlue2002 wrote: 86 Points
"Dessert" Wine Tasting (Prior Lake, MN): And the continued decline in my scores of this wine continues. I think it's more that I no longer have a taste for such overtly sweet wines, and not a general decline in the wine itself.
This is rich, thick, and just plain sweet.
My #5, Group #5 (Last Place)
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11/27/2014 - GoBlue2002 wrote: 89 Points
Drank after Thanksgiving dinner with a pumpkin roll - a meh pairing.
I'm not sure if this wine is in decline or my palate is just changing, but I wasn't as excited with this as I was before. It was still sweet but with almost enough acidity to balance it out, but it lacked a great deal of complexity.
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12/28/2013 - galewskj wrote: 88 Points
Wow, the one I had 1.5 years ago was so much better. This one was just very middle of the road. Very sweet, lacking interest. Now I'm wishing I'd bought less. :(
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