Decanted and back into the bottle for 2 hours. Opaque, inky purple-garnet with a clear rim. Great nose - very floral, dark brambly fruit, garrigue, and some forest floor. Palate is full of blackberries, dusty road, perfume, and some cedar in the background. Beautifully integrated wispy tannins.
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Spicy black fruit aroma with notes of leather. No brett. Juicy blackberry and black currant flavors with a long finish. Powerful and dense with lots of depth. Evolves a lot with air - recommend at least an hour decant. Very good now but still going places.
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Notable sediment, but this still casts an inky hue in the glass. Even with a couple of hours of air, this is not revealing its true character. Hint of lavender and dark berries, but mostly displays the promise of greater things to come. Might revisit my last bottle of this at the end of this decade…
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4/19/2024 - Montesquieu wrote: 92 Points
Far less extracted and hot than the Reserve. Complex flavors of red and black fruit and bramble. Solid value drinking well out of the bottle now.
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4/7/2024 - KevinS wrote: 93 Points
Drinking beautifully now
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12/25/2023 - seeyouintee Likes this wine: 92 Points
Decanted and back into the bottle for 2 hours. Opaque, inky purple-garnet with a clear rim. Great nose - very floral, dark brambly fruit, garrigue, and some forest floor. Palate is full of blackberries, dusty road, perfume, and some cedar in the background. Beautifully integrated wispy tannins.
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12/24/2023 - Wine_Poobah Likes this wine: 95 Points
Spicy black fruit aroma with notes of leather. No brett. Juicy blackberry and black currant flavors with a long finish. Powerful and dense with lots of depth. Evolves a lot with air - recommend at least an hour decant. Very good now but still going places.
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10/20/2022 - urban_dk Likes this wine: 92 Points
Notable sediment, but this still casts an inky hue in the glass. Even with a couple of hours of air, this is not revealing its true character. Hint of lavender and dark berries, but mostly displays the promise of greater things to come. Might revisit my last bottle of this at the end of this decade…
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