One whiff...All Bordeaux. Red bright raspberry, deep tilled soil notes, an energetic jasmine like bouquet jumping out of the glass. This is real Bordeaux and clearly mature with many more gears to shift into. Drink or Hold
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Curious data point tonight - decanted an hour and my wife, who has become sensitive to brett after Covid, said this tasted like a mouthful of bandaids. We moved onto another wine and about six hours later, we came back to this and it had turned around. This is a terrific wine for the price - still good on day two.
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Unbridled fruit and new oak here. I usually am anti-new oak but this is an exception. Theres just so much fruit on this wine, the oak is needed to counter all that ripeness. On the nose, this smells like a cedar and vanilla bomb. On the palate, tons of dark red fruit, ripe blackberry, summer black plum underneath vanilla toasty oak notes. This needed about an hour in the decanter to explode from coy and cedary to super ripe and vanilla-ey. Some modest tannins were coaxed out with air.
The balancing factor to me here is foremost the freshness and then the acidity. This did not taste like a 16 yr old wine. Had the fruit of an 18 red burg but in a fuller profile. Probably best to drink/survey soon. Excellent pairing with beef wellington.
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3/31/2024 - ledocq Likes this wine: 92 Points
Delicious right off the bat, and stood up nicely to some marinated kebobs. No danger of decline any time soon.
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9/5/2023 - Purple Tooth wrote: 93 Points
Wow, Haut Medoc?
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6/17/2023 - Purple Tooth wrote:
One whiff...All Bordeaux. Red bright raspberry, deep tilled soil notes, an energetic jasmine like bouquet jumping out of the glass. This is real Bordeaux and clearly mature with many more gears to shift into. Drink or Hold
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3/4/2023 - ledocq Likes this wine:
Curious data point tonight - decanted an hour and my wife, who has become sensitive to brett after Covid, said this tasted like a mouthful of bandaids. We moved onto another wine and about six hours later, we came back to this and it had turned around. This is a terrific wine for the price - still good on day two.
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12/19/2021 - marcus_francois Likes this wine:
Unbridled fruit and new oak here. I usually am anti-new oak but this is an exception. Theres just so much fruit on this wine, the oak is needed to counter all that ripeness. On the nose, this smells like a cedar and vanilla bomb. On the palate, tons of dark red fruit, ripe blackberry, summer black plum underneath vanilla toasty oak notes. This needed about an hour in the decanter to explode from coy and cedary to super ripe and vanilla-ey. Some modest tannins were coaxed out with air.
The balancing factor to me here is foremost the freshness and then the acidity. This did not taste like a 16 yr old wine. Had the fruit of an 18 red burg but in a fuller profile. Probably best to drink/survey soon. Excellent pairing with beef wellington.
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