Surprisingly complex nose on first opening. Red fruit, pepper, sweet spice, smoke, and cedar. Decanted for an hour and a half as it was quite tight on the palate. Nose opened up beautifully. Bouquet of black cherry, raspberry, and cassis. Some mint, leather, and nutmeg. On the palate, it is quite structured and fruity with lots of black fruit and tart cherry. Cocoa and chocolate on the finish. The acidity is mouth-watering. Tannins are quite chewy. The alcohol is well-integrated. Needs either a longer decant or a few more years in the cellar.
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2/29/2024 - Sun_Devil Likes this wine: 89 Points
Acid, cherry, prolly could have used more time either in the bottle or the decanter, still good
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11/1/2023 - CaptBmann Likes this wine: 90 Points
Garnet fast legs no sediment medium to full body tart cherry plum oak leather dry medium soft medium smooth
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10/31/2023 - racerchris wrote: 89 Points
Popped and poured. Rather firm for the first two glasses, gradually opened up.
A last glass saved overnight was very good.
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9/7/2023 - CaptBmann Likes this wine: 88 Points
Garnet medium legs slight touch of sediment medium to full body blackberry plum leather tobacco oak dry
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2/19/2023 - brenkim103 wrote: 87 Points
Surprisingly complex nose on first opening. Red fruit, pepper, sweet spice, smoke, and cedar. Decanted for an hour and a half as it was quite tight on the palate. Nose opened up beautifully. Bouquet of black cherry, raspberry, and cassis. Some mint, leather, and nutmeg. On the palate, it is quite structured and fruity with lots of black fruit and tart cherry. Cocoa and chocolate on the finish. The acidity is mouth-watering. Tannins are quite chewy. The alcohol is well-integrated. Needs either a longer decant or a few more years in the cellar.
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