2003 Saxum Broken Stones

Community Tasting Notes (55) Avg Score: 92.6 points

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  1/16/2021 - Hcs1999@hotmail.com wrote: 95 Points

  This was a wonderful surprise - drank with football food (wings, queso, chips and dip) and it was bright, dense, almost amarone-like.... but delicious! 17 years and not tired at all!

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  9/19/2019 - Mrbuzz Does not like this wine:

  Too plummy and Porty...tart acid with little spritz...sediment caked bottle. Not horrible...just not up to par with Saxum yumminess.

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  7/13/2019 - Cailles wrote: 84 Points

  Saxum Tasting (Zurich): Comprehensive vertical tasting of several Saxum vineyards and a total of 24 wines. Most wines on a good to very good level in the 93 to 95 points range, just one on an exceptional (97+ points) level (James Berry Bone Rock 08). The consistency of the wine-making at Saxum is impressive but the tasting proofed to be rather a bit boring with less difference between the vineyards and vintages showing than expected and wished for. Heart Stone stood out a bit (bigger vats used, little new oak) thanks to more terroir expression. James Berry (mostly Grenache) and James Berry Bone Rock (elevated complexity and sexiness) were great. Best vintage (we tried wines from 2003 to 2011) is clearly the 2007 which produced the wines with the most depth.
  
  TN: This was pretty weak showing a lot of signs of age on the nose and palate along pretty sweet and overripe, port-like fruit. Not a winner.

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  6/22/2019 - sirpat00 wrote:

  Grand Saxum Tasting (Gustav in Zurich): Grand Saxum tasting over several vineyeards and vintages. 23 wines in total. What was remarkable is the consistancy in aromatics across vintages and partly also across vineyards. Big and powerful wines but not without elegance. As a vintage 2007 stood out as exceptional across all vineyards. Booker stood out as the most consistent on a high level while James Berry vineyards had the highest range, but was oustanding in some vintages. The top wines for me were 2008 Bone Rock and Booker 2007.
  
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  Past its peak with soy souce already blurring the aromas. Maybe a long decant can help mitigate but in my view beyond repair. NR

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  6/4/2017 - rexmerlot wrote: 90 Points

  Clear deep dark purple in color. Clean nose of blackberries and vanilla. A big jammy wine. Good, but not loving it, especially given all the hype around it.

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