Almost 4 years since my last bottle, this now has fresh fruit,roasted meat, and spice on the nose and palate, with a fairly long finish. Alcohol has been integrated/diminished. I would buy more at $15+/btl. Glad to have 3 more.
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Agree with the comments stating "unbalanced." Fruit is good, tannins a little dusty, but the alcohol predominates (14.9%) and there's some unwelcome burn. OK finish for a wine at this price.
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Dense and pruny. Unbalanced. This has collapsed into itself, a black hole with nothing lively left on the nose or anywhere after. I give it 80 only because it falls a notch above the average cough syrup, unless you were looking for sugar, in which case it's beneath the charts.
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So we ploughed through a few without recording notes (gets repetitive and boring) but the last one is broached and deserves a word. That said, nothing new and exciting to add over what we have written before: dark fruits, meaty, brambly, quite dense, stands up to dark meaty sauces (sushi?????). Would definitely reload.
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2/3/2016 - gcarl wrote: 91 Points
Almost 4 years since my last bottle, this now has fresh fruit,roasted meat, and spice on the nose and palate, with a fairly long finish. Alcohol has been integrated/diminished. I would buy more at $15+/btl. Glad to have 3 more.
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6/7/2015 - Tomportwine wrote: 87 Points
very rustic, strong tannins, very hardy, would need strong food to complement it, which i didn't have!
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6/3/2013 - tenor12bucks wrote: 86 Points
Agree with the comments stating "unbalanced." Fruit is good, tannins a little dusty, but the alcohol predominates (14.9%) and there's some unwelcome burn. OK finish for a wine at this price.
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8/29/2012 - Vinomane wrote: 80 Points
Dense and pruny. Unbalanced. This has collapsed into itself, a black hole with nothing lively left on the nose or anywhere after. I give it 80 only because it falls a notch above the average cough syrup, unless you were looking for sugar, in which case it's beneath the charts.
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7/14/2012 - Dulcie and Aylwin wrote:
So we ploughed through a few without recording notes (gets repetitive and boring) but the last one is broached and deserves a word. That said, nothing new and exciting to add over what we have written before: dark fruits, meaty, brambly, quite dense, stands up to dark meaty sauces (sushi?????). Would definitely reload.
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