Red berries, with purple berry accents, meadow flowers, herbs, sous-bois, and black earth on the bouquet and palate. Taut, delightfully so, and still showing youthful elements. I preferred this over the 2008 vintage. This bottle had five to seven years, perhaps ten, of life. Improvement seems possible. 93-94.
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Herbal lift, candied red fruit nose. Tasted extracted, but smoothed out by its age. Red and dark fruit, still fairly bright and holding acid, not too shabby and definitely not flabby. 90
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Decanted an hour before. Very fruit forward! Leads with blueberry, with a bit of cherry and maybe blackberry in the background. Acidity very much in balance. Color thinning on the edges. It won't get better, but it is not in any danger of slipping over the edge. I would say it has a couple of years ahead of it. Sadly, it is my last bottle. Hats off to Mike Etzel, he did very well with this one which is no surprise.
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Delicious. Shows maturity not through aged funk but rather a softening of the primary palate. Cherry, blueberry, faint prickly blackberry, some citrus lightening things up. Soft and integrated, still fresh.
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A multi hour revelation, opening up into an evolving display of various fruit (dark red cherry, plum, even blueberry), also cocoa, coffee, mushroom, among others.
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11/13/2023 - Motz wrote: 93 Points
Red berries, with purple berry accents, meadow flowers, herbs, sous-bois, and black earth on the bouquet and palate. Taut, delightfully so, and still showing youthful elements. I preferred this over the 2008 vintage. This bottle had five to seven years, perhaps ten, of life. Improvement seems possible. 93-94.
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12/14/2022 - Michael Hung Likes this wine: 90 Points
Herbal lift, candied red fruit nose. Tasted extracted, but smoothed out by its age. Red and dark fruit, still fairly bright and holding acid, not too shabby and definitely not flabby. 90
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3/20/2021 - derrington wrote: 94 Points
Decanted an hour before. Very fruit forward! Leads with blueberry, with a bit of cherry and maybe blackberry in the background. Acidity very much in balance. Color thinning on the edges. It won't get better, but it is not in any danger of slipping over the edge. I would say it has a couple of years ahead of it. Sadly, it is my last bottle. Hats off to Mike Etzel, he did very well with this one which is no surprise.
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10/17/2020 - Scamber Likes this wine: 93 Points
Delicious. Shows maturity not through aged funk but rather a softening of the primary palate. Cherry, blueberry, faint prickly blackberry, some citrus lightening things up. Soft and integrated, still fresh.
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9/17/2020 - pierre3 wrote: 100 Points
A multi hour revelation, opening up into an evolving display of various fruit (dark red cherry, plum, even blueberry), also cocoa, coffee, mushroom, among others.
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