Guys Wine Night - Bring something you've been saving (Jason's House): We drank the 2000 Plumpjack Reserve cork wine alongside the 2000 reserve stelvin closure. The stelvin closure was definitely fresher and had less nuance upon first opening. Initially, I could tell them apart with authority. It would be difficult to pick a favorite, more of a preference towards sappy fruit with flowers, cherry and vanilla versus secondary characteristics of tobacco, earth and cedar. After about an hour in glass, the two wines were practically identical, and I could no longer find any discernible difference. I have to say, for 2000, these wines drink pretty well. Silky red fruit, acidity and earth.
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Great Dinner at Jason's: Bring a bottle you have been saving: At the risk of never being invited back to Jason's (which I hope does not happen!), I didn't like this wine. It is over extracted, almost port-like in its heavy prune, super-ripe fruit, and high alcohol. Tasted from screw cap and cork, with the screw cap tasting more clean, to me.
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Ok, it was late on New Years Eve, so no reliable notes. Remember it being a total fruit bomb on opening, though. Enjoyable, but great company makes all wines more enjoyable:)
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2/6/2017 - galewskj wrote: 93 Points
Guys Wine Night - Bring something you've been saving (Jason's House): We drank the 2000 Plumpjack Reserve cork wine alongside the 2000 reserve stelvin closure. The stelvin closure was definitely fresher and had less nuance upon first opening. Initially, I could tell them apart with authority. It would be difficult to pick a favorite, more of a preference towards sappy fruit with flowers, cherry and vanilla versus secondary characteristics of tobacco, earth and cedar. After about an hour in glass, the two wines were practically identical, and I could no longer find any discernible difference. I have to say, for 2000, these wines drink pretty well. Silky red fruit, acidity and earth.
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2/4/2017 - mzimberg Does not like this wine:
Great Dinner at Jason's: Bring a bottle you have been saving: At the risk of never being invited back to Jason's (which I hope does not happen!), I didn't like this wine. It is over extracted, almost port-like in its heavy prune, super-ripe fruit, and high alcohol. Tasted from screw cap and cork, with the screw cap tasting more clean, to me.
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11/13/2015 - Ben.r@isst.org wrote:
Used the Coravin on November 6th, 2015 to sample with Ben, Mac, and Tom Matz
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1/1/2014 - flea wrote: 90 Points
Ok, it was late on New Years Eve, so no reliable notes. Remember it being a total fruit bomb on opening, though. Enjoyable, but great company makes all wines more enjoyable:)
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3/28/2013 - pdicorpo wrote: 94 Points
Delicious and ready for drinking. Strong hints of tobacco.
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