P&p. This smells delightful - like fresh Bing cherries, blackcurrants, black peppercorns, allspice, and black tea leaves crushed and mixed together. Gains marginally in pungency, depth and cohesion over 2+ hours, but good right out of the bottle and the change is not major. Similar flavors, juicy, spicy, saline/mineral, fairly light in body, with assertive acidity and somewhat coarse medium-strength tannins making for a slightly rustic/inelegant yet focused, characterful and overall delicious wine.
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German/Austrian Tasting (K&L, San Francisco): Aromatic, red fruit, spicy, nice depth; medium bodied, smooth medium tannins, excellent fruit; medium finish. Superb for the price! 90-91
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Ripe, generous, open on the nose. Cherries, plums, spices, tobacco on the nose. On the palate very fresh and vibrant - juicy red fruit, rather soft tannins, nice minerality. Good length. Drink or keep. 91-93
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2/28/2018 - Beerzebub Likes this wine:
P&p. This smells delightful - like fresh Bing cherries, blackcurrants, black peppercorns, allspice, and black tea leaves crushed and mixed together. Gains marginally in pungency, depth and cohesion over 2+ hours, but good right out of the bottle and the change is not major. Similar flavors, juicy, spicy, saline/mineral, fairly light in body, with assertive acidity and somewhat coarse medium-strength tannins making for a slightly rustic/inelegant yet focused, characterful and overall delicious wine.
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3/25/2017 - Keeping It Real wrote: 89 Points
Big, smooth, like a cab mixed with pinot. 38% blaufrankisch, 27% cab, 30% merlot, 5% syrah
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3/25/2017 - aagrawal wrote: 91 Points
German/Austrian Tasting (K&L, San Francisco): Aromatic, red fruit, spicy, nice depth; medium bodied, smooth medium tannins, excellent fruit; medium finish. Superb for the price! 90-91
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11/14/2016 - rossi.wine wrote: 92 Points
Ripe, generous, open on the nose. Cherries, plums, spices, tobacco on the nose. On the palate very fresh and vibrant - juicy red fruit, rather soft tannins, nice minerality. Good length. Drink or keep. 91-93
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11/20/2015 - rossi.wine wrote: 92 Points
Slightly barnyardy on the nose, dark fruit, cherries. Very spicy, quite mineral, powerful, juicy fruit, nice length. 91-92+
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