There’s quality fruit in this wine, although maybe less ideal than what the winemaker was hoping for. But the pedigree is there. However, I just wish they didn’t have to go and try to make it better. I wish they had just let it be. Because now there’s a doctored up quality to this wine that I don’t really love. Pretty cherry and mapled fig on the nose. The palate is a bit to saccharine and synthetic for my tastes.
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Youthful still, and quite substantial. 14.1ABV with oak needing a few more years to integrate & soften the fruit. Delicious, not overly complex, rich & dark black/blue fruits. Nice match with med rare duck & lamb tonite.
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Dark, abundant black & blue fruit, just enough ripe stem, subtle acid and appropriate tannin.... fully mature, I think, with fruit gathering minor characteristics of decline. Recommend drinking within 2-4 years if well stored.
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2/15/2023 - Paul Lin wrote: 84 Points
There’s quality fruit in this wine, although maybe less ideal than what the winemaker was hoping for. But the pedigree is there. However, I just wish they didn’t have to go and try to make it better. I wish they had just let it be. Because now there’s a doctored up quality to this wine that I don’t really love. Pretty cherry and mapled fig on the nose. The palate is a bit to saccharine and synthetic for my tastes.
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12/22/2021 - oldcorke Likes this wine: 93 Points
Youthful still, and quite substantial. 14.1ABV with oak needing a few more years to integrate & soften the fruit. Delicious, not overly complex, rich & dark black/blue fruits. Nice match with med rare duck & lamb tonite.
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9/8/2021 - Paul Lin wrote: 85 Points
Slow oxygenated for 6 hours. Notes of black cherry, cola, fig, and black tea. A little heavy handed on the palate, with a kick of heat.
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11/18/2017 - mac-eye Likes this wine: 92 Points
Deep, mature fruit, balance of fruit, acid, tannins. Still dark, just about right in 2017.
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4/9/2016 - oldcorke wrote: 93 Points
Dark, abundant black & blue fruit, just enough ripe stem, subtle acid and appropriate tannin.... fully mature, I think, with fruit gathering minor characteristics of decline. Recommend drinking within 2-4 years if well stored.
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