I kinda crossed my fingers buying this bottle hoping to find wine diamonds (tartrate crystals) like the last poster, as I've found that to often correspond to yummy bottles, but alas my cork had none... :(
Cork looks great, maybe 3/16+" saturation; PnP with no decant, but poured using an aerator. The wine has a clear red ruby color, barely noticeable slight bricking on the edges, and visible sediment in the bottom of the bottle. The legs are pretty quick to start dropping, showing nice long thin but well defined lines, with a decent density of lines. Nose.............. Initially you get a lot of the merlot and cab franc, with the can sauv seeming somewhat mellow and resolved into the plushness of the background flavors.
Notes didn't get much further into the night, except that it balanced out into a very nicely drinking wine that my gut was saying 92+. It drank surprisingly well!
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opened the bottle to find lovely wine diamonds on the cork. The color was a deep red/purple, nose of dark cherry, chocolate and licorice/leather. tasty dark cherry flavour with mild tannins. a very enjoyable drinkable wine!
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6/27/2018 - CamraMaan Likes this wine: 92 Points
I kinda crossed my fingers buying this bottle hoping to find wine diamonds (tartrate crystals) like the last poster, as I've found that to often correspond to yummy bottles, but alas my cork had none... :(
Cork looks great, maybe 3/16+" saturation; PnP with no decant, but poured using an aerator. The wine has a clear red ruby color, barely noticeable slight bricking on the edges, and visible sediment in the bottom of the bottle. The legs are pretty quick to start dropping, showing nice long thin but well defined lines, with a decent density of lines. Nose.............. Initially you get a lot of the merlot and cab franc, with the can sauv seeming somewhat mellow and resolved into the plushness of the background flavors.
Notes didn't get much further into the night, except that it balanced out into a very nicely drinking wine that my gut was saying 92+. It drank surprisingly well!
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1/13/2013 - Styles cellar Likes this wine: 92 Points
opened the bottle to find lovely wine diamonds on the cork. The color was a deep red/purple, nose of dark cherry, chocolate and licorice/leather. tasty dark cherry flavour with mild tannins. a very enjoyable drinkable wine!
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11/20/2010 - rfras wrote: 91 Points
Very enjoyable. Cherry and plum flavors with a silky smooth finish.
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4/8/2007 - McCall Cellar wrote: 91 Points
Very enjoyable. Will get more.
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3/27/2007 - Bill Davis wrote: 94 Points
OUTSTANDING! Silky smooth Merlot dominant Bordeaux style. Drink now but also has structure (CS29% & CF14%) for cellaring.
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