I should have read my TN of 5 years ago before opening this bottle because it might have encouraged me to decant. As it was the aromas were shy at first and about a third of the bottle had been consumed before it really opened up. Then the nose became expressive with quince tinged white fruit, wax and minerals and the medium bodied palate became beautifully focussed and linear with integrated notes of white fruit, aromatic overlay from the nose, minerals, fresh acidity, round undertow and good backbone. Very elegant and very good.
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Cork was quite moldy and crumbly, but the wine was in great shape. Beautiful nose - cool, linear and restrained. Love the palate - not at all lemony or stony, which I don’t love in CB. Rich and round but still very precise and linear. Great finish.
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messed up in some way - funky in an unpleasant way and never blows off. Not corked though. I don;t know what's going on here, but i gave it 3 days to straighten itself out and never did - this has to be a bad bottle.
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2/7/2021 - christyler wrote:
Not necessarily over the hill, but I enjoyed these a lot more in their youth.
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8/30/2020 - eboracum Likes this wine: 92 Points
I should have read my TN of 5 years ago before opening this bottle because it might have encouraged me to decant. As it was the aromas were shy at first and about a third of the bottle had been consumed before it really opened up. Then the nose became expressive with quince tinged white fruit, wax and minerals and the medium bodied palate became beautifully focussed and linear with integrated notes of white fruit, aromatic overlay from the nose, minerals, fresh acidity, round undertow and good backbone. Very elegant and very good.
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1/5/2018 - Pedro G wrote: 90 Points
Sobressai inicialmente o mel mas depois o vino está perfeto. Tudo integrado aromas a flores brancas, equilibrado em boca.
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11/6/2017 - christyler Likes this wine: 93 Points
Cork was quite moldy and crumbly, but the wine was in great shape. Beautiful nose - cool, linear and restrained. Love the palate - not at all lemony or stony, which I don’t love in CB. Rich and round but still very precise and linear. Great finish.
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6/19/2016 - brooklynguy wrote: flawed
messed up in some way - funky in an unpleasant way and never blows off. Not corked though. I don;t know what's going on here, but i gave it 3 days to straighten itself out and never did - this has to be a bad bottle.
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