The wine looks garnet colored. The legs are medium. There is light sediment in the bottle. It smells like blackberry, blueberry, red currant, black currant (cassis), dust, coffee, light toast, cedar, lead pencil and violet. It tastes like dust, toast, coffee, lead pencil and cedar. The body is medium/full. The wine has polished texture. The wine finishes medium. The wine has medium acidity. Bloody, balsamic, umami.
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Drink now, surprisingly showing exceptionally well for 2007 given a subpar vintage. The great producer still manages to make a great wine even during an unfavourable vintage.
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Good color, ripe cassis on the nose, quite plump at first, then lead pencils, a bit of iron, quite smokey. Flavorsome but a bit muddy on the palate, some ripeness but also quite pronounced acidity, quite prominent on the finish. A good effort for 2007, drinking well now, but not one to search out.
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2/22/2024 - Junior1961 Likes this wine: 93 Points
The wine looks garnet colored. The legs are medium. There is light sediment in the bottle. It smells like blackberry, blueberry, red currant, black currant (cassis), dust, coffee, light toast, cedar, lead pencil and violet. It tastes like dust, toast, coffee, lead pencil and cedar. The body is medium/full. The wine has polished texture. The wine finishes medium. The wine has medium acidity. Bloody, balsamic, umami.
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5/16/2023 - YingerW Likes this wine:
Drink now, surprisingly showing exceptionally well for 2007 given a subpar vintage. The great producer still manages to make a great wine even during an unfavourable vintage.
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1/29/2022 - BcDuncan wrote: 90 Points
aged well; very smooth
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12/17/2020 - drbobskis wrote: 89 Points
Almost NO fruit 3 hrs after opening and breathing. Opened a 2011 same label which was a bit better.
Next day...1/2 bottle left...fruit stared to show
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12/15/2020 - wineamateur Likes this wine: 88 Points
Good color, ripe cassis on the nose, quite plump at first, then lead pencils, a bit of iron, quite smokey. Flavorsome but a bit muddy on the palate, some ripeness but also quite pronounced acidity, quite prominent on the finish. A good effort for 2007, drinking well now, but not one to search out.
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