as with all great wines, a 1hour plus decant is required. pure concentrated clean fruit, great balance, persistent finish. really good, but they need to sit for a few more years as this has a long life ahead of it. 93++
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WOW, huge nose of cassis, lead pencil, cigar box, tobacco, very dark, mineral... Loads of bacon fat, sappy black cherries, mineral, black, length of 45 sec!!
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rich young purple red color, generous on the nose from the start settling into an elegant beauty after 4 hours in glass, cassis, plum, blackberry, a nice framing of spicy oak, relaxing and familiar, classic, on the palate young but surprisingly generous, primary blackberry and cassis fruit with firm spice notes from the oak, cloves, a bit of cedar, perfectly ripe but still with some classic restraint, abundant velvety tannins, excellent depth and a fine long finish with crushed berries on the tail end, this is somewhat reminiscent of the great 1985 and will hopefully have a similarly long life and generous drinking window.
Lear garnet with a ruby core. Very clear. Cacophony of dark fruit scents with black blueberries and blackberries and bramble. Sweet blackberries, cinnamon, raspberries on the edges. Has at least three decades of life ahead of it.
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Super layered beautiful wine a little bit on the sweet side--dark raisin, dark rum, dark plum, purple inky and black....black currant, blackberry and plum
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5/6/2024 - cbuhlman wrote:
as with all great wines, a 1hour plus decant is required.
pure concentrated clean fruit, great balance, persistent finish.
really good, but they need to sit for a few more years as this has a long life ahead of it.
93++
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5/5/2024 - Philippe_C wrote: 98 Points
WOW, huge nose of cassis, lead pencil, cigar box, tobacco, very dark, mineral... Loads of bacon fat, sappy black cherries, mineral, black, length of 45 sec!!
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5/3/2024 - Elpaninaro Likes this wine:
rich young purple red color, generous on the nose from the start settling into an elegant beauty after 4 hours in glass, cassis, plum, blackberry, a nice framing of spicy oak, relaxing and familiar, classic, on the palate young but surprisingly generous, primary blackberry and cassis fruit with firm spice notes from the oak, cloves, a bit of cedar, perfectly ripe but still with some classic restraint, abundant velvety tannins, excellent depth and a fine long finish with crushed berries on the tail end, this is somewhat reminiscent of the great 1985 and will hopefully have a similarly long life and generous drinking window.
(****)+, 2029++
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4/17/2024 - TexasBob Likes this wine: 94 Points
Lear garnet with a ruby core. Very clear. Cacophony of dark fruit scents with black blueberries and blackberries and bramble. Sweet blackberries, cinnamon, raspberries on the edges. Has at least three decades of life ahead of it.
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2/23/2024 - richshoes Likes this wine: 96 Points
Super layered beautiful wine a little bit on the sweet side--dark raisin, dark rum, dark plum, purple inky and black....black currant, blackberry and plum
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