This needs some more bottle age. In the Beginning too reductive, covers everything. Blew off after two hours, became pure comfort then with caramel popcorn, flint, apple, pear, toast.
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A Belated 52nd Birthday Celebration (Alisal Guest Ranch, Solvang, CA): Maybe I hold this producer to too high a standard, but this wine came off as pandering in a way: just too turbo-charged, with loads of reduction and richness. Almost clumsy. Maybe with some real bottle age things will settle out better?
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4/21/2024 - Vinobystino wrote: 93 Points
This needs some more bottle age. In the Beginning too reductive, covers everything. Blew off after two hours, became pure comfort then with caramel popcorn, flint, apple, pear, toast.
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1/15/2024 - loj Likes this wine: 93 Points
No complex notes on hand but this was fantastic. Needed a bit of time to open up.
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11/1/2023 - benjamin96 Likes this wine: 90 Points
Je trouvais le vin plat, manquait d'eclat
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6/7/2023 - 560 B&W Likes this wine: 93 Points
Pnp at heirloom. Great complexity, mid weight. 13%
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10/16/2022 - JonnyG wrote: 88 Points
A Belated 52nd Birthday Celebration (Alisal Guest Ranch, Solvang, CA): Maybe I hold this producer to too high a standard, but this wine came off as pandering in a way: just too turbo-charged, with loads of reduction and richness. Almost clumsy. Maybe with some real bottle age things will settle out better?
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