90 for now. This is an absolute baby, but promising. Thankfully, it is a California wine that seems to have been created in an old world style - thank goodness. Unfortunately, right now there is a lot of simple grape juice flavor that will no doubt come together in a more refined meritage in time. There are plenty of traditional undertones in both aroma and on the palate that are trying to push through. Hopefully they will.
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This is a big, saturated wine. Lots of dark berry notes on the nose: blackberry, black currant, cassis. Leather and spice. Big, big mouth-filling flavors. If you want a massive wine, open it now. I’ll wait quite a while to open my remaining bottles. I’d like this to mellow a little bit.
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5/14/2024 - ChopperWine Likes this wine: 90 Points
90 for now. This is an absolute baby, but promising. Thankfully, it is a California wine that seems to have been created in an old world style - thank goodness. Unfortunately, right now there is a lot of simple grape juice flavor that will no doubt come together in a more refined meritage in time. There are plenty of traditional undertones in both aroma and on the palate that are trying to push through. Hopefully they will.
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1/9/2024 - suckling_pig Likes this wine: 89 Points
Dark in color, smells like a fresh leather couch, delicious fruit forward palate.
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1/8/2024 - pouncey wrote: 91 Points
This is a big, saturated wine. Lots of dark berry notes on the nose: blackberry, black currant, cassis. Leather and spice. Big, big mouth-filling flavors. If you want a massive wine, open it now. I’ll wait quite a while to open my remaining bottles. I’d like this to mellow a little bit.
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12/12/2023 - Mss0904 Likes this wine: 89 Points
Carmel and raspberries in the nose. Palate has notes of young cherries, leather and black currants. Slightly acidic with a bit of a metallic finish.
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9/3/2023 - TampaMark Likes this wine: 90 Points
Great juice. Let it open about 3 hours. Crowd pleaser!!!
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