Bottle opened 45 minutes before consumption. Exotic fruit aromas and very clean. However, in the mouth lacked the viscous depth of other vintages, the predominantly pineapple flavour taking on a fruit drop character and lacking acidity making the wine appear medium rather than off-dry. The saltiness of the accompanying gammon joint gave overall balance to the experience which otherwise would have been somewhat sickly! A singleton of this vintage so have no past experience to guide me - but in my view needs drinking ASAP. Still reasonable quality but I expect much more from a producer more often associated with excellent 90+ wines.
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12/3/2015 - Mr T wrote:
Similar to other bottles...not bad but not a wow wine.
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11/1/2014 - Mr T wrote:
similar to last bottle...not bad but not really showing Smaragd type richness or depth
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4/30/2014 - NickBurwood wrote: 87 Points
Bottle opened 45 minutes before consumption. Exotic fruit aromas and very clean. However, in the mouth lacked the viscous depth of other vintages, the predominantly pineapple flavour taking on a fruit drop character and lacking acidity making the wine appear medium rather than off-dry. The saltiness of the accompanying gammon joint gave overall balance to the experience which otherwise would have been somewhat sickly!
A singleton of this vintage so have no past experience to guide me - but in my view needs drinking ASAP. Still reasonable quality but I expect much more from a producer more often associated with excellent 90+ wines.
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4/14/2014 - Mr T wrote:
not as full as prior bottle and more dominated by acid/grapefruit...nice enough but not compelling
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4/2/2014 - Mr T wrote:
excellent if a tad light/acidic
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