Right after I opened it, bit disappointed. Because I thought it passed it’s peak, and found lots of sediments I decided to use decanter, around 1 hour after decanting it became a totally excellent wine. Very long finished, well balanced, and good feeling of acidity, it still has a lot of potential for aging. enjoyable wine!!
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Wines like this continue to show why you should never listen to wine criitcs who are either over paid or have an agenda. 2000 vintage is panned as terrible by the "professionals." This wine is drinking very well. Absoultely above average. Glad I have 2 more bottles that I will probably not touch for another couple of years.
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Deep dulling ruby; cedar and blackberry notes on clean easily coaxed nose; spicy menthol alcohol palate with more tannins than apparently I appreciated about this time last year.
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Absolutely awesome. I wish I would've taken notes. Lots of ripe red and black fruits, coconut, and rich, black soil. Full-bodied and captivating with fine-grained tannins, integrated acidity, and a beautiful complexity. Creamy semi-sweet chocolate and berries dominate the moderate finish. The fruit is showing strong, though a few more years would've done this wine well.
My only complaints are that the wine wasn't quite totally captivating, and the finish left some to be desired.
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Deep black ruby, Grenache nose of black cherry/kirsch, sweet and alcoholic and soft if any tannins. In short another perfectly constructed nondescript Parkerized wine devoid of personality.
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8/26/2023 - acoma911 Likes this wine: 93 Points
Right after I opened it, bit disappointed. Because I thought it passed it’s peak, and found lots of sediments
I decided to use decanter, around 1 hour after decanting it became a totally excellent wine.
Very long finished, well balanced, and good feeling of acidity, it still has a lot of potential for aging.
enjoyable wine!!
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11/27/2014 - King of all vines wrote: 93 Points
Wines like this continue to show why you should never listen to wine criitcs who are either over paid or have an agenda. 2000 vintage is panned as terrible by the "professionals." This wine is drinking very well. Absoultely above average. Glad I have 2 more bottles that I will probably not touch for another couple of years.
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12/6/2012 - Tgood wrote: 89 Points
Deep dulling ruby; cedar and blackberry notes on clean easily coaxed nose; spicy
menthol alcohol palate with more tannins than apparently I appreciated about this time last year.
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12/1/2012 - la dut Likes this wine: 91 Points
Absolutely awesome. I wish I would've taken notes. Lots of ripe red and black fruits, coconut, and rich, black soil. Full-bodied and captivating with fine-grained tannins, integrated acidity, and a beautiful complexity. Creamy semi-sweet chocolate and berries dominate the moderate finish. The fruit is showing strong, though a few more years would've done this wine well.
My only complaints are that the wine wasn't quite totally captivating, and the finish left some to be desired.
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12/31/2011 - Tgood wrote: 88 Points
Deep black ruby, Grenache nose of black cherry/kirsch, sweet and alcoholic and soft if any tannins. In short another perfectly constructed nondescript Parkerized wine devoid of personality.
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