2010 Benziger Family Winery Oonapais

Community Tasting Notes (6) Avg Score: 90.9 points

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  6/29/2021 - Wine Gombie Likes this wine: 85 Points

  Color: Ruby purple with fading edges…. getting ready to expire.
  
  Nose: Not a lot there. What is left is a bit of mocha, chocolates, earth, leather with subtle fruits of blueberry, blackberry, dark cassis. We also get hints of unripe bell pepper, balsamic vinegar, and a greenhouse as it begins to propagate. There are definitely some muddy puddles lingering….Yes, lingering.
  
  Fruit: What fruit?? Extremely soft, minimal tannins, subtle cherry, blackberry, cocoa. Not a lot going on here. Lost its prime a good 8 years ago! Flat! Comes, goes & that’s it, folks.
  Good for the alcohol at 14.5%, don’t expect anything else from this particular year at this point.

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  6/29/2020 - wconnolly Likes this wine: 88 Points

  Deep, rich and bold. Creosote, ripe berry and a little lavender on the nose. Sour cherry cassis, tea and a bit of a medicinal note on the finish. Full bodied and robust.

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  6/3/2016 - Jack11211 Likes this wine: 93 Points

  opened tonight, and its still evolving - was fruit forward at first but that dissipated over the first 20-30 minutes and its drinking lovely right now... would love for some of the more subtle leather/earthy flavors to come through a bit more but maybe a little later tonight, we shall see!

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  2/15/2016 - winecadence Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Very nice at opening.

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  8/19/2015 - libero wrote: 92 Points

  Dark red, aromas of black berries and earth. Well balance
  D and ready to drink. We had it with Biriami a la Nauab, an spicy, to say the least, Indian food, in which rice is cooked with beef, lamb, shirimp, raisins, Caju, coriander, cloves, almonds, chicken peas, onions, potatoes and a dozen more. Delicious and this wine paired extremely well with this quite hot wine.

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