For this bottle, the optimum time to drink. Have owned since release; cork release and condition perfect. Nice deep color, with a very slight hint of age. Scent of dusty berry, curing fruit; pleasant. Cherry, apricot, vanilla, currant, gooseberries. Very smooth finish. Little tannicity. Enjoy.
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Previous bottle consumed 4 years ago, this has evolved great. Still primary, lots of life left. Deep, rich fruit but balanced and some herbal aromas; blind I would have guessed Northern Rhone syrah.
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This was very much closed on opening. It really opened up after 2+ hours of air and a slight fridg chill (from the cellar)...a requirement with bigger reds during the Phoenix inferno/summer/inferno. It was soft and smokey with the darkest of fruit. Brooding, dry, earthy, dusty and notes of cocoa powder. Intriguing and drinking great today with years to go.
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Pulled the cork on this wine after a recent La Jota Merlot of the same vintage. I preferred the La Jota but this was a nice weekday bottle as a bridge to the weekend.
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4/19/2024 - 993 Likes this wine: 93 Points
For this bottle, the optimum time to drink. Have owned since release; cork release and condition perfect. Nice deep color, with a very slight hint of age. Scent of dusty berry, curing fruit; pleasant. Cherry, apricot, vanilla, currant, gooseberries. Very smooth finish. Little tannicity. Enjoy.
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1/2/2024 - peeks13 wrote: 92 Points
Previous bottle consumed 4 years ago, this has evolved great. Still primary, lots of life left. Deep, rich fruit but balanced and some herbal aromas; blind I would have guessed Northern Rhone syrah.
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12/9/2023 - DfwCabLover Likes this wine: 90 Points
Nice easy drinking wine, but nothing fantastic.
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9/19/2023 - ozziewine Likes this wine: 93 Points
This was very much closed on opening. It really opened up after 2+ hours of air and a slight fridg chill (from the cellar)...a requirement with bigger reds during the Phoenix inferno/summer/inferno.
It was soft and smokey with the darkest of fruit. Brooding, dry, earthy, dusty and notes of cocoa powder.
Intriguing and drinking great today with years to go.
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9/7/2023 - MJP Hou TX Likes this wine: 92 Points
Pulled the cork on this wine after a recent La Jota Merlot of the same vintage. I preferred the La Jota but this was a nice weekday bottle as a bridge to the weekend.
Give it some air if opening today.
Drink or hold.
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