This wine continues to improve. Drank with barbecue chicken. The tannins have resolved into an earthy fruit and herb taste profile. Acid balance has improved. First bottle in '17 was mediocre at best. A bottle last year was good and this bottle was very good. Keeping my last bottle for at least an additional year.
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Really pretty good and better than bottle I drank in 2017. PnP and drank with pan grilled silver salmon on a salad. Okay fruit, earthiness. Acidity a bit too much. Drink or hold.
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This is my first of these and it was actually better than indications from other earlier cellar tracker notes. When first opened I would say this was an 85 with harsh edges and little fruit. It improved over the course of several hours to what I would rate an 88 with a bit more fruit peaking through and muting of some of the harsh edges. Still have three more bottles of this so-so wine.. Maybe (wishful thinking) additional age will benefit this wine.
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nice clarity, medium to light weight. A little funk on the nose that went away after almost an hour in the glass. Some dried fruit. Seems to be missing any real substance. meduim finish. Saved some for day two, we'll see what happens!
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4/23/2020 - dsimmons Likes this wine: 90 Points
This wine continues to improve. Drank with barbecue chicken. The tannins have resolved into an earthy fruit and herb taste profile. Acid balance has improved. First bottle in '17 was mediocre at best. A bottle last year was good and this bottle was very good. Keeping my last bottle for at least an additional year.
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3/9/2019 - dsimmons Likes this wine: 89 Points
Really pretty good and better than bottle I drank in 2017. PnP and drank with pan grilled silver salmon on a salad. Okay fruit, earthiness. Acidity a bit too much. Drink or hold.
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12/20/2017 - dsimmons Likes this wine: 87 Points
This is my first of these and it was actually better than indications from other earlier cellar tracker notes. When first opened I would say this was an 85 with harsh edges and little fruit. It improved over the course of several hours to what I would rate an 88 with a bit more fruit peaking through and muting of some of the harsh edges. Still have three more bottles of this so-so wine.. Maybe (wishful thinking) additional age will benefit this wine.
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10/20/2013 - Hazeo wrote: 77 Points
Worse than last bottle. Little fruit and some metallic aftertaste. Not completely undrinkable but it seems to be really subpar to me.
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3/12/2013 - redwiner Likes this wine: 87 Points
nice clarity, medium to light weight. A little funk on the nose that went away after almost an hour in the glass. Some dried fruit. Seems to be missing any real substance. meduim finish. Saved some for day two, we'll see what happens!
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