More than fully mature, the wine is still showing, soft, gentle, elegant textures, but the nose is closer to old wood, earth and tobacco than fruit and while the finish still delivers soft textures, the fruit is clearly fading. Well, you know what they say, with wines older the 15 years, there are no great wines, just great bottles. However this is not a wine for holding, it is a wine for drinking.
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Surprisingly fresh for the first 2 hours, before it faded. Lovely dark fruit, loads of earth, mushrooms. Hint of violet on the nose. Gravelly texture. Medium finish.
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8/2/2022 - englishman's claret wrote: flawed
Oxidized. Alas.
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7/19/2022 - PDavisMarble wrote:
Old and somewhat oxidized. Over an hour the funk blew off and then there were still hints of cedar and tobacco, but essentially this bottle was gone.
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2/28/2019 - Jeff Leve wrote: 85 Points
More than fully mature, the wine is still showing, soft, gentle, elegant textures, but the nose is closer to old wood, earth and tobacco than fruit and while the finish still delivers soft textures, the fruit is clearly fading. Well, you know what they say, with wines older the 15 years, there are no great wines, just great bottles. However this is not a wine for holding, it is a wine for drinking.
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12/7/2013 - johnh1001 wrote: 90 Points
Surprisingly fresh for the first 2 hours, before it faded. Lovely dark fruit, loads of earth, mushrooms. Hint of violet on the nose. Gravelly texture. Medium finish.
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