Same bottle as Nutty08, I think I liked it even more than he did. At apogee, with cherry fruit remaining in the midst of tertiary development. Loads of umami character, like mushrooms with extra MSG, but no soy notes. Hints of fine herb in the background. And silky smooth. This is really excellent today.
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This was terrific and seemingly at peak. Has some tertiary notes with tea leaves and mushroom notes mixed with cherry notes and citrus highlights. Fruit still quite full and wrapping the structure. Faded a bit with air but was really showing well (Threw a LOT of sediment, this was stood up the day before and decanted)
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This 'Lost Cellar' wine was opened for a birthday dinner for friends. It was opened 6 hours before serving. The colour was deep cherry red with some rust at the edges. The nose was a perfumed mix of wild strawberry, red cherries, Asian spice and ferruginous earth. The palate was soft and rounded with lovely balance and persistence. There was a perfect touch of red fruits that persisted right through the palate and which seemed to light up the structure perfectly. Quite delicious.
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fully mature and wide open, good integrated structure with a slightly stewed palate, sweet fruit in the dark red spectrum. acidity was a little lacking, maybe they picked the fruit a bit too late
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2/3/2024 - jviz wrote: 95 Points
Same bottle as Nutty08, I think I liked it even more than he did. At apogee, with cherry fruit remaining in the midst of tertiary development. Loads of umami character, like mushrooms with extra MSG, but no soy notes. Hints of fine herb in the background. And silky smooth. This is really excellent today.
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2/3/2024 - Nutty08 Likes this wine: 94 Points
This was terrific and seemingly at peak. Has some tertiary notes with tea leaves and mushroom notes mixed with cherry notes and citrus highlights. Fruit still quite full and wrapping the structure. Faded a bit with air but was really showing well
(Threw a LOT of sediment, this was stood up the day before and decanted)
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6/15/2023 - drjb Likes this wine: 92 Points
This 'Lost Cellar' wine was opened for a birthday dinner for friends. It was opened 6 hours before serving. The colour was deep cherry red with some rust at the edges. The nose was a perfumed mix of wild strawberry, red cherries, Asian spice and ferruginous earth. The palate was soft and rounded with lovely balance and persistence. There was a perfect touch of red fruits that persisted right through the palate and which seemed to light up the structure perfectly. Quite delicious.
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11/9/2018 - MarcusNZ wrote: 89 Points
fully mature and wide open, good integrated structure with a slightly stewed palate, sweet fruit in the dark red spectrum. acidity was a little lacking, maybe they picked the fruit a bit too late
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3/4/2017 - Warren23 wrote: 92 Points
Gorgeous wine. Notes of luscious raspberry, and sweet, dried cherry with great mouth feel.
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