Perfumy in bouquet and flavor. A lot of fine particulate and some bricking on edges. Tobacco, mint, berries. Soft tannins. Still nice but seems to vary from bottle to bottle.
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Opened towards the end of its life, this wine had a beautiful nose initially, but palate was tight and almost thin. Improved markedly after decanting. Tobacco and Eucalyptus on the nose and into the palate. Fading quite gracefully through the mid-palate, leaving slightly jammy notes with some light tannin.
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Decanted 2 hours. Straight from the get-go I could tell that a bit of the fruit had fallen away, and in hindsight the decanting process would not have helped. Some brick in the colour, a little blue fruit and a hint of tannin. Primarily though this wine is savoury in character as expected. Finish lacked length, thinned out a little. I think it would've been peak around 5 years ago. Drink yesterday.
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1/16/2021 - Meeshka wrote:
Perfumy in bouquet and flavor. A lot of fine particulate and some bricking on edges. Tobacco, mint, berries. Soft tannins. Still nice but seems to vary from bottle to bottle.
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3/30/2018 - Southern Wine Buff Likes this wine: 87 Points
Opened towards the end of its life, this wine had a beautiful nose initially, but palate was tight and almost thin. Improved markedly after decanting. Tobacco and Eucalyptus on the nose and into the palate. Fading quite gracefully through the mid-palate, leaving slightly jammy notes with some light tannin.
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11/24/2016 - nick.whit wrote: 88 Points
Decanted 2 hours. Straight from the get-go I could tell that a bit of the fruit had fallen away, and in hindsight the decanting process would not have helped. Some brick in the colour, a little blue fruit and a hint of tannin. Primarily though this wine is savoury in character as expected. Finish lacked length, thinned out a little. I think it would've been peak around 5 years ago. Drink yesterday.
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9/23/2012 - cubswinws wrote: 88 Points
Nice mature wine with fading fruit but still enjoyable.
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5/30/2011 - alamoave wrote: 89 Points
Somewhat like a mature Hermitage or Gigondas; enjoyable but more subtle than fruity at this stage; drink up
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