This wine is very drinkable with meats and rich foods. It is not overly complex, focusing on ripe fruits as the vast majority of the flavor. It is a bit of a fruit bomb. Very low on tannins. Extremely dark in color.
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Fat and fruity on the nose and palate, with full components of ripe boysenberry, sweet cured tobacco, and touches of woodsmoke and caramel, but flabby and sweet - almost syrupy. Unfortunately, the wine doesn't offer sufficient acidic structure to compensate for its near-cloying ripeness. It deserves some credit for purity of flavor, but I can't recommend it.
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12/2/2014 - espesq Likes this wine: 90 Points
This has matured into a very nice, smooth wine. Still plenty of fruit for balance.
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7/11/2013 - kmicho Likes this wine: 87 Points
This wine is very drinkable with meats and rich foods. It is not overly complex, focusing on ripe fruits as the vast majority of the flavor. It is a bit of a fruit bomb. Very low on tannins. Extremely dark in color.
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1/27/2013 - wystiria wrote:
Added to a cioppino and drank along side
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8/17/2012 - fournet wrote: 85 Points
A bit too much fruit for me. Not sufficiently integrated due to insufficient acidity.
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12/8/2011 - WineontheBarrelhead wrote: 80 Points
Fat and fruity on the nose and palate, with full components of ripe boysenberry, sweet cured tobacco, and touches of woodsmoke and caramel, but flabby and sweet - almost syrupy. Unfortunately, the wine doesn't offer sufficient acidic structure to compensate for its near-cloying ripeness. It deserves some credit for purity of flavor, but I can't recommend it.
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