My bottle. Very cut and structured, like an Oscar statue, with bold, complex, spicy black fruit. After years of backwardness, it's excellent drinking right now and should hold here if not improve for years to come. Read once that Parker called Chaleur (another WA wine) the Lafite of WA; if that's true, then this is the Leoville Las Cases. Very grand juice. Sadly, it's my last of six (why I know so much about the backwardness.)
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Very smooth wine with a bit of acid holding it up at this point. Nice blue fruits on the nose and palate. Another made the comment that it was very old world-like and they weren't far off.
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Pop & pour. Nose at first was somewhat redolent of bandaids, with some nice blackberry fruit. As the wine aired out, the bandaid aroma faded, replaced by a nice woodsy smell of cedar. This carried over to the palate, showing blackberry, earth and cedar. Quite smooth and creamy in the mouth, this is absolutely drinking at peak right now. By day 2, the complexity had faded somewhat, and just the fruit showed, but still had the creaminess. An excellent WA Cab, but this should probably be consumed within a year or two, now for best results.
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7/10/2015 - hiker_guy Likes this wine:
Beautiful wine that showed maturity but also breed. Was mistaken for an aged Bordeaux in blind tasting. Nice balance and flavors.
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7/14/2013 - Neecies Likes this wine: 94 Points
My bottle. Very cut and structured, like an Oscar statue, with bold, complex, spicy black fruit. After years of backwardness, it's excellent drinking right now and should hold here if not improve for years to come. Read once that Parker called Chaleur (another WA wine) the Lafite of WA; if that's true, then this is the Leoville Las Cases. Very grand juice. Sadly, it's my last of six (why I know so much about the backwardness.)
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11/17/2012 - powersaxo Likes this wine: 94 Points
Very smooth wine with a bit of acid holding it up at this point. Nice blue fruits on the nose and palate. Another made the comment that it was very old world-like and they weren't far off.
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4/7/2012 - Traxx wrote:
Brett. Garbage.
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1/5/2012 - RPerro wrote: 92 Points
Pop & pour. Nose at first was somewhat redolent of bandaids, with some nice blackberry fruit. As the wine aired out, the bandaid aroma faded, replaced by a nice woodsy smell of cedar. This carried over to the palate, showing blackberry, earth and cedar. Quite smooth and creamy in the mouth, this is absolutely drinking at peak right now. By day 2, the complexity had faded somewhat, and just the fruit showed, but still had the creaminess. An excellent WA Cab, but this should probably be consumed within a year or two, now for best results.
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