This is a huge wine that needed a good 90 minutes to open up and smooth out. Nice nose of baking spice and strawberry. Almost black in color with long legs. Black fruit, minerals and pepper. Good mouthfeel and long finish. If you like big full bodied wines this will be right in your wheelhouse. In it's drinking window with a lot of years to go.
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This is the most amount of OAK I have ever tasted in wine. This was red Bourbon! Somewhere underneath that oak was a very nice wine that was buried alive and still breathing...What a shame. The score is for oak lovers. I would have scored this in mid 80's...Drink? Hold? Whatever
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Beautiful, rich, dark, deep and brooding wine. Notes of tobacco, chocolate, dried fig, black cherry jam, a lot of port-like flavors but regular wine freshness and lusciously smooth, mouth coating tannins. Absolutely fantastic. Wish I'd bought more than one bottle.
In a blind tasting I would have guessed a 5-8 year old left bank Bordeaux. Lots of pencil shavings, tobacco, plum, berry, cedar, licorice. Well balanced, vibrant, smooth. Gorgeous!
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4/24/2022 - VoteferPedro wrote:
harsh to start
double decanted and ready 90 minutes later
at that point got plums and cherries
disappeared quickly afyer that!
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10/17/2021 - americanstorm Likes this wine: 93 Points
This is a huge wine that needed a good 90 minutes to open up and smooth out. Nice nose of baking spice and strawberry. Almost black in color with long legs. Black fruit, minerals and pepper. Good mouthfeel and long finish. If you like big full bodied wines this will be right in your wheelhouse. In it's drinking window with a lot of years to go.
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11/23/2019 - Purple Tooth wrote: 92 Points
This is the most amount of OAK I have ever tasted in wine. This was red Bourbon! Somewhere underneath that oak was a very nice wine that was buried alive and still breathing...What a shame. The score is for oak lovers. I would have scored this in mid 80's...Drink? Hold? Whatever
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9/22/2017 - millennialwinegeek Likes this wine: 95 Points
Beautiful, rich, dark, deep and brooding wine. Notes of tobacco, chocolate, dried fig, black cherry jam, a lot of port-like flavors but regular wine freshness and lusciously smooth, mouth coating tannins. Absolutely fantastic. Wish I'd bought more than one bottle.
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4/17/2017 - budh wrote: 93 Points
In a blind tasting I would have guessed a 5-8 year old left bank Bordeaux. Lots of pencil shavings, tobacco, plum, berry, cedar, licorice. Well balanced, vibrant, smooth. Gorgeous!
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