Solid, with black fruit playing the lead and some subtle red fruit underneath. We drank this over a 6-hour period, and it went strong the whole time, so no rush on this despite being ten years old. Nice tannin structure. Spicecake notes in the secondary flavors.
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This is in a great place right now if you like mature wines. It probably peaking and not going to get much better but at this time you get a portion of the youthful notes and flavors with a good majority of the mature notes of dried fall leaves, currants, typical Malbec iron notes, sweet tobacco, spice and some sweet oak notes.
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Great wine that had been gift from friend that since passed on. Great color, great nose and after 1 hour in decanter it showed really well, very smooth lots of fruit and herbs/spices with a great finish. was super combination with rack of lamb from the grill. perfect choice for event / company / food.
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Popped and poured at Piccolo Arancio. Dizzying nose of ripe black fruit. Very tart on the palate initially although that softened after an hour. Nice, modern style wine.
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7/22/2012 - rcmcb wrote: 92 Points
Solid, with black fruit playing the lead and some subtle red fruit underneath. We drank this over a 6-hour period, and it went strong the whole time, so no rush on this despite being ten years old. Nice tannin structure. Spicecake notes in the secondary flavors.
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10/28/2011 - tkoby11 wrote: 92 Points
This is in a great place right now if you like mature wines. It probably peaking and not going to get much better but at this time you get a portion of the youthful notes and flavors with a good majority of the mature notes of dried fall leaves, currants, typical Malbec iron notes, sweet tobacco, spice and some sweet oak notes.
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2/6/2011 - MichielV wrote: 93 Points
Great wine that had been gift from friend that since passed on. Great color, great nose and after 1 hour in decanter it showed really well, very smooth lots of fruit and herbs/spices with a great finish. was super combination with rack of lamb from the grill. perfect choice for event / company / food.
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2/10/2008 - johnnywebs wrote: 91 Points
Popped and poured at Piccolo Arancio. Dizzying nose of ripe black fruit. Very tart on the palate initially although that softened after an hour. Nice, modern style wine.
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12/28/2007 - charbo wrote:
I bought 3 of these 4 years ago and this wine is still singing.
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