Festival of Phil (Phil's place, Putney, Sydney): From Coravin. Aromas of blackcurrant, cream, cassis, sweet spice, clean, polished nose. Sourly fresh, fruit a little less ripe than I expected based on the nose, talc textured tannins, cream, the polished oak rather jars on the finish.
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Old world style with dark fruit, cloves, and gamey/vegetal notes, along with stewed fruit, and grippy tannins. That being said, this wine was fairly unbalanced and dead at this point. Should have drank a few years ago. hard to rate at this point (still somewhat enjoyable - 85-86 points??).
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Dark mulberry robe. This had a very interesting quality on the nose with green olive in the background of blackberry and blueberry aromas. Smooth operator (allusion to Sade deliberate) in an outrageously velvety arc with a finish that was slightly less demonstrative than one would like.
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8/19/2022 - chatters wrote:
Festival of Phil (Phil's place, Putney, Sydney): From Coravin. Aromas of blackcurrant, cream, cassis, sweet spice, clean, polished nose. Sourly fresh, fruit a little less ripe than I expected based on the nose, talc textured tannins, cream, the polished oak rather jars on the finish.
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11/14/2016 - mcease wrote: 86 Points
Old world style with dark fruit, cloves, and gamey/vegetal notes, along with stewed fruit, and grippy tannins. That being said, this wine was fairly unbalanced and dead at this point. Should have drank a few years ago. hard to rate at this point (still somewhat enjoyable - 85-86 points??).
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11/1/2015 - NoTrollingerPlease Does not like this wine: 85 Points
Unbalanced, simple, past peak. Bad PQR.
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7/13/2014 - nadecesse wrote: 91 Points
90-91
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1/31/2014 - chrisanderika Likes this wine: 92 Points
Dark mulberry robe. This had a very interesting quality on the nose with green olive in the background of blackberry and blueberry aromas. Smooth operator (allusion to Sade deliberate) in an outrageously velvety arc with a finish that was slightly less demonstrative than one would like.
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