2017 Tuck Beckstoffer A&R Reserve Dancing Hares Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (1) Avg Score: 92.3 points

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  2/12/2022 - camdawg Likes this wine: 93 Points

  I got this as a special from WineSpies.com, and it was worth every penny. I'm seriously thinking about getting some at the fuller triple digit price.
  
  At five years from vintage, this is still a very young wine. Very nice primary fruit, mainly red fruit. Perhaps the small bit of Merlot is helping fill out the red fruit profile here? This will make you work for it by swirling it in your glass to reveal the nose, but it's starting to come out. You can kind of tell this is still hiding behind its structure. Leaving this open for an hour or so will help it soften some.
  
  The tannins are kinda thick and chalky at this point. The finish is very long. The Petit Verdot is probably playing a role here.
  
  I'm surprised the drinking windows from the reviewers are only through 2027 or so. I think there's definitely enough structure here to last a good deal longer than just five more years. I find it hard to believe that James Suckling apparently only gave this a 90 point score. I'm only scoring it 93 points because of its youth. This can easily be a 94-95 point wine in a few years.

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