Not much aromas. And taste is a bit bland . Okay as an ordinary wine The wine looks ruby colored. The legs are slow. There is no sediment in the bottle. It smells like toast. The body is medium. The wine has smooth texture. The wine finishes short. The wine has low acidity.
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Having a truculent adolescence. Open it and pour and it is simple, dark fruit flavours, all primary with no finish. It doesn't like the decanter, goes flat straight away - but give it 24 hours in the bottle and it goes long but very secondary - all tobacco, smoke, echoes of fruit.
The answer at this point may have been 'should have drunk it last year'; I will leave my other three until the end of 2019, start on the eager to please 2014 and see if 2012 ever bothers to come down from its bedroom and join the rest of the family.
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3/4/2021 - derekjohn Likes this wine: 89 Points
Drank at dinner party.
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8/31/2019 - derekjohn Likes this wine: 87 Points
Very dark black plum-red. Powerful leather/liquorice/black fruits/glacé cherry nose. Medium full to full bodied. Leather, sloe etc in the mouth.
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1/3/2019 - Frankket163 wrote: 82 Points
Not much aromas. And taste is a bit bland . Okay as an ordinary wine
The wine looks ruby colored. The legs are slow. There is no sediment in the bottle. It smells like toast. The body is medium. The wine has smooth texture. The wine finishes short. The wine has low acidity.
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3/2/2018 - eRhoneous Likes this wine: 88 Points
Having a truculent adolescence. Open it and pour and it is simple, dark fruit flavours, all primary with no finish. It doesn't like the decanter, goes flat straight away - but give it 24 hours in the bottle and it goes long but very secondary - all tobacco, smoke, echoes of fruit.
The answer at this point may have been 'should have drunk it last year'; I will leave my other three until the end of 2019, start on the eager to please 2014 and see if 2012 ever bothers to come down from its bedroom and join the rest of the family.
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1/21/2018 - hornyphil Likes this wine: 90 Points
Excellent, powerful, quality wine. Drinking well now.
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