smoky oaky and dense dark fruit flavour, very dark colour in the glass, got better as the evening progressed. I didn't give it enought time to breathe - couple of hours minimum.
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Really overripe, throwing scents & tastes of unbalanced flavors of alcoholic, juicy/jammy, oak-slathered dark fruits. No finish. Strange and unenjoyable.
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Blind Wines with BBQ (Phil's place, Chicago IL): nose: rich, extracted and extremely big nose of vanilla, oak, dark red fruits, liqueur tones and bits of road tar. This was very ripe and hard to fully distinguish what it could be on the nose. Came off very barossa in style on the nose
taste: full bodied with a ton of oak and vanilla along with extracted tones of liqueur and dark red fruits. Just comes off as extremely ripe on the palate
overall: it was hard to really tell what this was when it was blind. It could've been from anywhere and while it was likely to be a syrah with the theme that emerged, there wasn't much to tell what it really was
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Tobacco. Rich. This has a certain deliciousness to it, but it doesn't take like Syrah. It's too big and extracted to really have any varietal characters. But on the other hand, it does taste good, so there is that. 87-88
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11/22/2011 - jhodge wrote: 89 Points
smoky oaky and dense dark fruit flavour, very dark colour in the glass, got better as the evening progressed.
I didn't give it enought time to breathe - couple of hours minimum.
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11/24/2010 - elevation02 wrote: 89 Points
Wonderful!
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11/23/2010 - cobbpa Does not like this wine: 76 Points
Really overripe, throwing scents & tastes of unbalanced flavors of alcoholic, juicy/jammy, oak-slathered dark fruits. No finish. Strange and unenjoyable.
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11/23/2010 - KeithAkers wrote: 82 Points
Blind Wines with BBQ (Phil's place, Chicago IL): nose: rich, extracted and extremely big nose of vanilla, oak, dark red fruits, liqueur tones and bits of road tar. This was very ripe and hard to fully distinguish what it could be on the nose. Came off very barossa in style on the nose
taste: full bodied with a ton of oak and vanilla along with extracted tones of liqueur and dark red fruits. Just comes off as extremely ripe on the palate
overall: it was hard to really tell what this was when it was blind. It could've been from anywhere and while it was likely to be a syrah with the theme that emerged, there wasn't much to tell what it really was
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9/13/2010 - hutch wrote: 87 Points
Tobacco. Rich. This has a certain deliciousness to it, but it doesn't take like Syrah. It's too big and extracted to really have any varietal characters. But on the other hand, it does taste good, so there is that. 87-88
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