If this is aging, it's at a geologic pace. Vanilla, fig, raisin, anise, molasses, caramel, butterscotch, and other related flavors evolving on the palate through the long finish. This isn't elegant, but it's hard to resist; dessert in a glass.
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Love all the notes by other users, so good to see different opinions on this wine. Deep & thick black in the glass. Aromatics that hit first are coffee, caramel, toffee, tobacco and licorice. A very cloying sweetness with not much acidity and liveness (but that’s typical PX). Still, so fascinating to see how a wine like this can age flawlessly. If they found this wine 200 years from now in an alien civilisation, I bet it would taste exactly the same as it does now. Incredible.
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Obviously there are people who really like this stuff. I don't. It reeks of licorice and sulphuric smokes and tastes like overripe candied figs. Some wise man told me I should wait a lot longer - I tried this over almost two months and it just does appeal to me at all, so I think I will give it a rest. For a long time.
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7/1/2022 - RichardP wrote: 93 Points
If this is aging, it's at a geologic pace. Vanilla, fig, raisin, anise, molasses, caramel, butterscotch, and other related flavors evolving on the palate through the long finish. This isn't elegant, but it's hard to resist; dessert in a glass.
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1/1/2022 - Larsrar wrote: 89 Points
Lacks a bit acidity. Very sweet and a bit clumsy. Not a elegant and ballanced as some of the wines from the 80ties...
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12/24/2021 - RED AND BLACK wrote: 91 Points
Very dense and a dessert on its own. Had a bit of chocolate with it and not suggesting to try the same!
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4/27/2021 - grapenomad wrote: 91 Points
Love all the notes by other users, so good to see different opinions on this wine. Deep & thick black in the glass. Aromatics that hit first are coffee, caramel, toffee, tobacco and licorice. A very cloying sweetness with not much acidity and liveness (but that’s typical PX). Still, so fascinating to see how a wine like this can age flawlessly. If they found this wine 200 years from now in an alien civilisation, I bet it would taste exactly the same as it does now. Incredible.
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12/23/2020 - Omar Khayyam wrote:
Obviously there are people who really like this stuff. I don't. It reeks of licorice and sulphuric smokes and tastes like overripe candied figs. Some wise man told me I should wait a lot longer - I tried this over almost two months and it just does appeal to me at all, so I think I will give it a rest. For a long time.
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