2019 Taaibosch Crescendo

Community Tasting Notes (10) Avg Score: 91.5 points

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  4/29/2024 - dcbell Likes this wine: 94 Points

  This is such an exciting wine already - remarkably intense, complex, and balanced. Quite a broad spectrum on the nose with ripe darker berry fruit, bell pepper, some baked earth, roasted chilli pepper, florals, and a slightly dirtier barnyard note. Clearly young and structured on the palate, with lots of acidity and tannic chew, but very enjoyable already. Lots of fresh, just ripe fruit flavours on the palate with a greener, leafy element too. I opened this quite casually expecting to land on ‘solid but too young’, but I’m really impressed by how good this is already and there’s no doubt it will age positively for 5-10 years or more.
  
  Edit: peculiarly, on day two this had shut down quite a lot. Still good, but not firing in the same as on day one.

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  3/3/2024 - OldHick95 Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Fresh, ripe, black cherry, bell pepper, some spiciness and moderate tannins. Mellow coffee on the finish, but mostly upper register flavors.

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  2/19/2024 - Peter Spijker Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Graphite, dark cherry, blackberry, some oak, a pleasant green note (herb, bell pepper). Good wine.

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  2/2/2024 - mcflytfc Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Quality natural cork, medium ruby in the glass, fruity spice on the nose. Lighter body, light red fruit, medium tannins, mild acidity. A nice wine.

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  1/28/2024 - Chris Davies wrote: 88 Points

  Not sure. Feels a bit too polite and well mannered. Picking early to avoid jamminess and over ripeness seems to have resulted in something lacking a bit of oomph. I think I’m being a bit mean and this will come good but I’m not convinced. 3

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