2008 K Vintners The Boy

Community Tasting Notes (16) Avg Score: 91.7 points

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  9/15/2018 - Acohen Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Dark raspberry, kir and earth with great finish

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  6/30/2018 - juneau bob wrote: 91 Points

  Brownish garnet. Dark cherry and candied fruit flavor. It has a long chocolate covered cherry finish. Very good.

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  12/6/2016 - Motz wrote: 95 Points

  The standout in a flight of K and Betz wines, and the only one that if blind I would have struggled to say was not a French wine. It features a complex bouquet and taste profile of hoisin, fig and date cake, guava paste, blackstrap molasses, tar, charcuterie, herbs, and minerals. The wine changes inflection, offering incalculable nuance. Tremendous substance and a powerful frame bode well for extended aging, and it is likely to evolve. It should enter its wheelhouse by 2021 - 2025. Spectacular!

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  12/5/2014 - junglejuice wrote: 93 Points

  Thanksgiving Weekend!!: I have had this wine twice in the last year, so for the sake of keeping down score inflation, I have included both in the same note. The wine was tasted on 05/27 and 11/27 of this year.
  
  05/27 - Pop and poured and followed over the course of 3 or so hours. Still youthful and vibrant, although there was not as much funk as I had anticipated coming from the Armada vineyard. No matter, this wine was killer. Medium to full bodied with notes of violet, blueberry compote, ripe blackberry, dark strawberry and moderate brambly complexity on the back end with just the faintest hint of meaty funk. It is still a bit unruly on the back with a bit of heat poking out, but it settled a bit by the last glass. If you have a few bottles open now with a moderate to long decant or wait a year or two. This wine will definitely improve and will be a stunner down the road. It is pretty damn close right now - 93.
  
  11/27 - This was the best wine consumed all Thanksgiving weekend. Where the last bottle only showed glimpses of the famed 'rocks funk', for this bottle the funk was front and center with meat driven notes of smoked olive and liquid rock in addition to all of the fantastic fruit complexity highlighted in my previous note. It showed best after being open for hours and is on the early side of it's drinking window. I will be holding my other bottle a year, if I can keep my hands off - 93+.

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  6/9/2013 - Brownvino wrote: 92 Points

  decanted three hours. I was prepared to wait. Tasting every hour to see how it was evolving. Dark sweet cherry fruit. Very enjoyable. Nice medium to long finish.

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