Immediate "Bordeaux stink" on the nose but after an hour decanting it shows well-balanced flavors of blackberry, red cherry, toast and a hint of creamy chocolate. Still holding up well but I would drink up any remaining bottles.
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The wine is a fairly dark ruby color. The nice nose features blackberries, cedar, dried herbs, cherries, vanilla, and some smoke. This has medium body, fairly solid tannins and good acidity. The wine is a touch lean on the palate with the spicy oak and dried herbs providing most of the flavor with the berries in the background. The finish has nice length with the fruit coming back into the picture. The wine has a bit too much oak for the fruit to conceal. This probably needs to be consumed over the next year before the fruit fades leaving just the oak elements.
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4/5/2015 - VinoHunter Likes this wine: 89 Points
Similar to MYWINETUTOR. Very smooth with still a fair amount of tannins, would have liked a little more fruit at the end...drink up!
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3/23/2014 - ArizonaWineGuy wrote: 86 Points
For the price not a bad bottle of gape juice, but not impressive.
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4/29/2013 - MyWineTutor Likes this wine: 88 Points
Immediate "Bordeaux stink" on the nose but after an hour decanting it shows well-balanced flavors of blackberry, red cherry, toast and a hint of creamy chocolate. Still holding up well but I would drink up any remaining bottles.
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1/26/2013 - BaylinBoy wrote: 88 Points
fruit forward, but strong tannins to counter. very solid
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11/20/2012 - cbbrown3 wrote: 86 Points
The wine is a fairly dark ruby color. The nice nose features blackberries, cedar, dried herbs, cherries, vanilla, and some smoke. This has medium body, fairly solid tannins and good acidity. The wine is a touch lean on the palate with the spicy oak and dried herbs providing most of the flavor with the berries in the background. The finish has nice length with the fruit coming back into the picture. The wine has a bit too much oak for the fruit to conceal. This probably needs to be consumed over the next year before the fruit fades leaving just the oak elements.
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