Just fabulous for the price! Beautiful color and mouth feel, with gorgeous notes of bright tart cherry and oak. Very light and rounded - only issue is it lacks great depth and complexity.
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This starts off fairly typical with a gorgeous nose of black truffle, iodine, tree moss and smoky minerality. With time, this becomes more primary with dense cherry aromas and flavors that lack the focus from 45 minutes before. Dense, fairly tannic, with high acidity throughout. This becomes more primary as it opens up. Would be interesting to following over the next 5-10 years. 90+ points based on the raw material.
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Good, full color; very floral quality of bright red fruit and spices with a funky, clearly old world thing working. Initially a bit stern on the palate with bracing acidity leaving you to feel something is lacking in "the middle" but, with some air, rounds out. The aftertaste is profound and the wine's most endearing quality-incredible persistence of beautiful bing cherry fruit and hints of violets and chocolate. Could have passed as a GC yet I suspect this will show even better tomorrow if things continue to round out. Last half of the bottle will get its chance to strut its stuff at about 12:01PM tomorrow.
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8/8/2020 - Warren23 wrote: 91 Points
Terrific again. Good balance, with earth notes, raspberry, and a medium finish. More complexity than I remembered from prior bottles.
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11/28/2019 - Warren23 wrote:
Thanksgiving 2019
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3/23/2019 - Warren23 wrote: 91 Points
Just fabulous for the price! Beautiful color and mouth feel, with gorgeous notes of bright tart cherry and oak. Very light and rounded - only issue is it lacks great depth and complexity.
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1/18/2018 - Xavier94 wrote: 91 Points
This starts off fairly typical with a gorgeous nose of black truffle, iodine, tree moss and smoky minerality. With time, this becomes more primary with dense cherry aromas and flavors that lack the focus from 45 minutes before. Dense, fairly tannic, with high acidity throughout. This becomes more primary as it opens up. Would be interesting to following over the next 5-10 years. 90+ points based on the raw material.
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4/6/2007 - jmoore431 wrote: 92 Points
Good, full color; very floral quality of bright red fruit and spices with a funky, clearly old world thing working. Initially a bit stern on the palate with bracing acidity leaving you to feel something is lacking in "the middle" but, with some air, rounds out. The aftertaste is profound and the wine's most endearing quality-incredible persistence of beautiful bing cherry fruit and hints of violets and chocolate. Could have passed as a GC yet I suspect this will show even better tomorrow if things continue to round out. Last half of the bottle will get its chance to strut its stuff at about 12:01PM tomorrow.
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