Very nice textural wine with loads of sweet, dark strawberries and raspberries. Floral and perfumed on the nose. Fine grained tannins with just enough grip to drink alongside a fatty cut of meat, but also soft enough to just sip. A pretty wine.
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Verdict is unclear on this. Great reviews here and in press, but this bottle was quite uneven. Tight on open, then after decant, while a tad more open, fruit was way too lean and dominated by spice and wood and a kind of funk . Tannin and acid remained out of balance. Not turned but just not expressive, or an unpleasant idiom. Had alone and with food and didn't matter. Bought more as it was on special, so hoping with either more bottle time or a different bottle shows better.
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10/16/2023 - wayfarer Likes this wine:
Better than first bottle sometime ago, nice smooth red/black fruit, some earth. Still feel a tad underwhelmed, but overall enjoyable.
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2/3/2023 - Ruby99 Likes this wine: 89 Points
Perfume nose
Red fruits moderate tannin
Best with a 3 hour decant
Quaffer
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5/23/2022 - Kaizah wrote: 90 Points
Seemed slightly over extracted. After being opened an hour, the wine became more approachable and integrated
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4/27/2022 - GrapeCrusader Likes this wine: 91 Points
Very nice textural wine with loads of sweet, dark strawberries and raspberries. Floral and perfumed on the nose. Fine grained tannins with just enough grip to drink alongside a fatty cut of meat, but also soft enough to just sip. A pretty wine.
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2/13/2022 - wayfarer wrote:
Verdict is unclear on this. Great reviews here and in press, but this bottle was quite uneven. Tight on open, then after decant, while a tad more open, fruit was way too lean and dominated by spice and wood and a kind of funk . Tannin and acid remained out of balance. Not turned but just not expressive, or an unpleasant idiom. Had alone and with food and didn't matter. Bought more as it was on special, so hoping with either more bottle time or a different bottle shows better.
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