A Bordeaux-style wine from the biodynamic Benziger Winery. It is more fruity than a traditional Bordeaux but has enough earthy notes to make it interesting. The nose offers tobacco, forest floor, Cherry, and mushroom. The palate starts with dark berries, black pepper, clove, licorice, and damp soil and finishes with bitter chocolate. A well done effort and a moderately complex wine with a solid structure.
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My bottle was slightly defective - some air had gotten through the cock and it tasted like an over decanted wine. My fault for keeping the wine on a shelf in a warm living room for a year before I got a fridge. But we still finished it. The nose was still fruity with secondary complexities and a moderate finish. I can imagine how much better it would have been...
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11/29/2020 - rpenn77 Likes this wine: 90 Points
A rustic full bodied wine.
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3/22/2015 - Fat Lips Likes this wine: 89 Points
A Bordeaux-style wine from the biodynamic Benziger Winery. It is more fruity than a traditional Bordeaux but has enough earthy notes to make it interesting. The nose offers tobacco, forest floor, Cherry, and mushroom. The palate starts with dark berries, black pepper, clove, licorice, and damp soil and finishes with bitter chocolate. A well done effort and a moderately complex wine with a solid structure.
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8/31/2014 - Jmarkowitzus Likes this wine: 91 Points
Ready to drink. Good fruit. Little complexity but nice body. Will not make old bones.
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6/24/2014 - Eschmidtke Does not like this wine:
Sadly one dimensional. Past it's prime?
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4/9/2014 - wylee wrote: flawed
My bottle was slightly defective - some air had gotten through the cock and it tasted like an over decanted wine. My fault for keeping the wine on a shelf in a warm living room for a year before I got a fridge. But we still finished it. The nose was still fruity with secondary complexities and a moderate finish. I can imagine how much better it would have been...
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