although fruit has disappeared , still a very attractive bottle revealing lots of secondary flavours , paired well at the BBQ with lamb and grilled eggplant and mushrooms , drink soon
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It took it good 20-30min for this to come together and continued to develop after that. Most fruit flavors have disappeared by now, so this offers mostly secondary ones - leather, dust, smoke. I am not sure this will improve any further, but the drinking window posted here is definitely too short - the wine drinks just fine. Not an amazing wine, but a good pleasant surprise.
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First of all, this has a well structured, tannic backbone that gives this life welll beyond the 'CT' drinking window, this was still quite 'fresh', but whether it will improve or not is the question, no need for those with the '59' bottles to drink up, but not sure how much it will benefit in the cellar - Very dark, full bodied with a nose of extreme plum, ceder, tobacco, spice and vanilla, nicely structured and balanced, decent complexity, quite green, but sweet, smooth on the palate with good length, quite tasty (89 Points).
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2/12/2021 - finewinebuff57 wrote: 87 Points
Still very much alive. Generous, rather international style. No complexity but perfectly palatable.
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6/15/2017 - rekkie58 Likes this wine: 89 Points
although fruit has disappeared , still a very attractive bottle revealing lots of secondary flavours , paired well at the BBQ with lamb and grilled eggplant and mushrooms , drink soon
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1/1/2013 - ininov wrote:
It took it good 20-30min for this to come together and continued to develop after that. Most fruit flavors have disappeared by now, so this offers mostly secondary ones - leather, dust, smoke. I am not sure this will improve any further, but the drinking window posted here is definitely too short - the wine drinks just fine. Not an amazing wine, but a good pleasant surprise.
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10/2/2011 - sshaw906 wrote: 88 Points
Probably waited too long to drink this wine. Could have been smoother. A bit of an after taste.
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3/16/2011 - Tarrant wrote: 89 Points
First of all, this has a well structured, tannic backbone that gives this life welll beyond the 'CT' drinking window, this was still quite 'fresh', but whether it will improve or not is the question, no need for those with the '59' bottles to drink up, but not sure how much it will benefit in the cellar - Very dark, full bodied with a nose of extreme plum, ceder, tobacco, spice and vanilla, nicely structured and balanced, decent complexity, quite green, but sweet, smooth on the palate with good length, quite tasty (89 Points).
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