Garnet color in the glass, clear looking throughout. Nose of tar, leather, black cherries and plums. Flavors of black cherries, black berries and plums. Medium acidity, medium tannin, full bodied. Drink over the short term.
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This seemed to have been better younger. Not sure what to make of this. Quite ripe and dense, coming out with vanilla on PnP. After a glass+ the bottle was set aside, capped, and the following night decanted for a couple of hours. The air helped it blow of sweet tones, but it remained dense and really not varietally expressive.
I got my bottles at a local retailer that (at the time) seemed reputable, but where I never shop, because it's out of the way. I bought them because the price was so good - $36. (Yes, these bottles are the '14 AB Juliard Vineyard.) It would be an odd wine to counterfeit, but stranger things have happened. (My purchase note includes "I placed an order for the Maresh Vineyard but they actually had this only and that is what I received and I agreed to keep it.". So there's that, too.)
Still, Good++ wine. 13.4% abv. I'd have guessed 14%(+).
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Dusty and smoothe and resolved. A tiny bit on the candied side of well balanced, but I like this quite a terrible bit. It smells and fills (the mouth) and lingers, and while there’s no calling card per se, it’s a great Dundee wine.
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10/18/2022 - wineismylife wrote: 92 Points
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Tasted non blind.
Garnet color in the glass, clear looking throughout. Nose of tar, leather, black cherries and plums. Flavors of black cherries, black berries and plums. Medium acidity, medium tannin, full bodied. Drink over the short term.
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9/7/2022 - sw918 Likes this wine: 90 Points
I enjoyed this smoky rendition of a Pinot the acid is waning a bit but still there medium body, stewed cherry and strawberry with leather and smoke.
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4/25/2022 - tward wrote: 85 Points
This seemed to have been better younger. Not sure what to make of this. Quite ripe and dense, coming out with vanilla on PnP. After a glass+ the bottle was set aside, capped, and the following night decanted for a couple of hours. The air helped it blow of sweet tones, but it remained dense and really not varietally expressive.
I got my bottles at a local retailer that (at the time) seemed reputable, but where I never shop, because it's out of the way. I bought them because the price was so good - $36. (Yes, these bottles are the '14 AB Juliard Vineyard.) It would be an odd wine to counterfeit, but stranger things have happened. (My purchase note includes "I placed an order for the Maresh Vineyard but they actually had this only and that is what I received and I agreed to keep it.". So there's that, too.)
Still, Good++ wine. 13.4% abv. I'd have guessed 14%(+).
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4/19/2022 - Zinlady Likes this wine:
Lovely Coats mouth. Had with chicken cacciatore Light in color. Deep in flavor
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11/13/2021 - jbaron wrote: 93 Points
Dusty and smoothe and resolved. A tiny bit on the candied side of well balanced, but I like this quite a terrible bit. It smells and fills (the mouth) and lingers, and while there’s no calling card per se, it’s a great Dundee wine.
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