Casual Dinner with Great Wine with Friends (Balena - Chicago IL): Enticing dried rose petals on nose with a hint of licorice. Palate is less exciting with mostly moderate earthy flavors and some spice hints in background. More interesting than pleasurable tonight.
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Served blind. Due to the age and the considerably lower quality compared to the foregoing wines, I guess the vintage right. No clue on the producer. Decent, but a bit metallic and short. However, my vintage, and probably the best 1956 I can expect to get.
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8/7/2012 - Burgundy Al wrote: 86 Points
Casual Dinner with Great Wine with Friends (Balena - Chicago IL): Enticing dried rose petals on nose with a hint of licorice. Palate is less exciting with mostly moderate earthy flavors and some spice hints in background. More interesting than pleasurable tonight.
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9/26/2011 - LWI wrote: 83 Points
Served blind. Due to the age and the considerably lower quality compared to the foregoing wines, I guess the vintage right. No clue on the producer. Decent, but a bit metallic and short. However, my vintage, and probably the best 1956 I can expect to get.
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