Tart red raspberries and cherries. Some earth and baking spices, mainly cinnamon and clove with cola spice on the palate. Good lift and acid. Drink now-2025
ABV: 13.1% Closure: agglomerated cork, unstamped. Likely DIAM Stem: Gabriel Glas StandArt Decant: 30min Assemblage: 10 months in 3 year old air-dried French oak barrels. 100% from Pelos Sandberg Vineyard. 287 cases produced.
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Cherry, pie spice, a little cola, a little mushroom, oak on the nose. Pie cherry and more spice on the palate, good depth of fruit, but some drying oak and tannins make it seem slightly austere or thin. Likely at peak, or maybe a bit past, but still lovely, mature OPN.
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Go West! Tasting (The QEII Centre, Westminster, London): Beatutiful big nose, full ripe berry and cherry, cinnamon, very welcoming, decadent, ethereal, palate a step back in intensity but copying the nose profile, ripe fruit, med finish
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7/9/2021 - rcb25 wrote:
Tart red raspberries and cherries. Some earth and baking spices, mainly cinnamon and clove with cola spice on the palate. Good lift and acid. Drink now-2025
ABV: 13.1%
Closure: agglomerated cork, unstamped. Likely DIAM
Stem: Gabriel Glas StandArt
Decant: 30min
Assemblage: 10 months in 3 year old air-dried French oak barrels. 100% from Pelos Sandberg Vineyard. 287 cases produced.
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3/18/2021 - mtaczak Likes this wine: 93 Points
Still amazingly fresh and pure ... what a steal!
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2/8/2021 - dsgris Likes this wine: 90 Points
Medium garnet, light nose of raspberry. tart raspberry fruit with well integrated tannins. Bright and clear, drinking well. Better after open an hour.
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6/29/2020 - wlsch Likes this wine: 90 Points
Cherry, pie spice, a little cola, a little mushroom, oak on the nose. Pie cherry and more spice on the palate, good depth of fruit, but some drying oak and tannins make it seem slightly austere or thin. Likely at peak, or maybe a bit past, but still lovely, mature OPN.
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3/10/2016 - kostaslonis wrote: 90 Points
Go West! Tasting (The QEII Centre, Westminster, London): Beatutiful big nose, full ripe berry and cherry, cinnamon, very welcoming, decadent, ethereal, palate a step back in intensity but copying the nose profile, ripe fruit, med finish
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