This wine has logged about 12,000 miles as I moved from placed to place over the last decade -- and shows it. Some heat damage occurred along the line. Color is still vibrant and the palate is fleshy and drinkable, but the nose is cooked.
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Dried roses and port-like prunes at first. Improved a lot with decant and two hours of air. The tannins are not likely to resolve to my satisfaction, if ever, but it was in fact splendid with a rib roast. Leather and old roses and a remainder of the beautiful black cherry of its youth, full mid-palate, minerality, earth, and a decent finish with those firm, dry tannins. Kind of surprised it's held up so well.
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1/10/2016 - wilypod wrote: flawed
This wine has logged about 12,000 miles as I moved from placed to place over the last decade -- and shows it. Some heat damage occurred along the line. Color is still vibrant and the palate is fleshy and drinkable, but the nose is cooked.
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5/3/2014 - wilypod Likes this wine: 88 Points
Dried roses and port-like prunes at first. Improved a lot with decant and two hours of air. The tannins are not likely to resolve to my satisfaction, if ever, but it was in fact splendid with a rib roast. Leather and old roses and a remainder of the beautiful black cherry of its youth, full mid-palate, minerality, earth, and a decent finish with those firm, dry tannins. Kind of surprised it's held up so well.
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3/7/2010 - vrdr wrote: 88 Points
drink now
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10/19/2008 - RHamm7 wrote:
Good. Lighter, somewhat like a Pinot.
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