WOw. Color still dark purple and tannins still strong but smooth from cellaring. Nice upfront fruit - coffee, cedar notes. After two hrs., still drinking well with nice length. Could keep ageing. Shared with mom from Chile - she appreciated this one!
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Strong vanilla oak and pure sweet fruit. A bit over Oaked and overextracted. Chalk, heavy chalk on the mouth and pasty tannins. Sorry but too modern and overdone for my taste.
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To me, stongly structured. Lots of tannic drying; this thing could take on a ribeye, easy.
Took quite a while to open up and give up some fruit on the nose. I'm no good at nuance... it was fruit, ok ? Lots of earth; I liked that. Nice and full on the palate, dry on the finish. Good.
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dark and concentrated. green pepper, alcohol, leather, preserved black cherries, cassis/ kirsch, espresso. A whole lot going on. round supple. nice concentration and depth. smooth tannins and some acidity balannce big black fruit. at its peak or close to
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7/12/2013 - vinovin wrote: 89 Points
WOw. Color still dark purple and tannins still strong but smooth from cellaring. Nice upfront fruit - coffee, cedar notes. After two hrs., still drinking well with nice length. Could keep ageing. Shared with mom from Chile - she appreciated this one!
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3/13/2011 - riskun wrote: 84 Points
Strong vanilla oak and pure sweet fruit. A bit over Oaked and overextracted. Chalk, heavy chalk on the mouth and pasty tannins. Sorry but too modern and overdone for my taste.
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9/10/2010 - frockaloid wrote: 87 Points
To me, stongly structured. Lots of tannic drying; this thing could take on a ribeye, easy.
Took quite a while to open up and give up some fruit on the nose. I'm no good at nuance... it was fruit, ok ? Lots of earth; I liked that. Nice and full on the palate, dry on the finish. Good.
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5/11/2009 - TannicBeast wrote: 92 Points
dark and concentrated. green pepper, alcohol, leather, preserved black cherries, cassis/ kirsch, espresso. A whole lot going on. round supple. nice concentration and depth. smooth tannins and some acidity balannce big black fruit. at its peak or close to
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1/16/2007 - GreenDrazi wrote: 85 Points
Another couple of notches down the ladder.
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