Best showing, yet. Bottle purchased on release and stored professionally and in controlled home cellar; in pristine condition. Clear, deep garnet with hint of bricking at edge. Savory and red berry fruit. Actually, my last note from 2017 rings true, but this bottle, today, has better palate intensity, especially in mid-palate compared to prior bottles. Bonnie loves it, too. Terrific.
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huge, vibrant nose savory and fruity. No cork taint here, thankfully, unlike my last 2 years ago. Very syrah. Palate not as intense. Excellent, though palate intensity not same as nose. Meaty. Other notes ring true. Solid 90-92..
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Another very fine bottle of this. Still youthfully tannic but with air it opened up nicely. The nose was just lovely, evolving from peat- and truffle-inflected ripe fruit to more smoky and mineral/earth aromas. The palate never quite caught up to the nose, but I still grooved on it.
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Not as focused and pure as the last bottle but still very enjoyable. Old cedar notes on the nose with blackberry and ink notes. Some herbs as well. The fruit is ripe but not jammy at all as there's actually a nice sensation of freshness and austerity. It really got better after 2 days when it had time to breath (unlike the previous bottle which showed well right away).
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1/25/2021 - mdvino63 Likes this wine: 92 Points
Best showing, yet. Bottle purchased on release and stored professionally and in controlled home cellar; in pristine condition. Clear, deep garnet with hint of bricking at edge. Savory and red berry fruit. Actually, my last note from 2017 rings true, but this bottle, today, has better palate intensity, especially in mid-palate compared to prior bottles. Bonnie loves it, too. Terrific.
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1/1/2017 - mdvino63 Likes this wine: 90 Points
huge, vibrant nose savory and fruity. No cork taint here, thankfully, unlike my last 2 years ago. Very syrah. Palate not as intense. Excellent, though palate intensity not same as nose. Meaty. Other notes ring true. Solid 90-92..
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1/1/2015 - mdvino63 wrote: flawed
Slightly corked. Bummer. Still deep ruby. Good, fresh fruit underneath cork nose. Still some tannin. Not bad on palate, though can't get full sense.
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10/31/2013 - Chomsky wrote:
Another very fine bottle of this. Still youthfully tannic but with air it opened up nicely. The nose was just lovely, evolving from peat- and truffle-inflected ripe fruit to more smoky and mineral/earth aromas. The palate never quite caught up to the nose, but I still grooved on it.
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7/17/2013 - french16 wrote:
Not as focused and pure as the last bottle but still very enjoyable. Old cedar notes on the nose with blackberry and ink notes. Some herbs as well. The fruit is ripe but not jammy at all as there's actually a nice sensation of freshness and austerity.
It really got better after 2 days when it had time to breath (unlike the previous bottle which showed well right away).
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