This wine has a nose wafting with cherries, oriental spice and vanilla. The taste is still not balanced but shows tart cherries, tar and red berries. This wine is still not together and needs more time in the bottle.
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Dark color. nose was tight tonight showing dark cherry fruit with significant coaxing. on the palate, there was tart cherry/cranberry flavor with acid backbone. there was some weight and glycerin in the midpalate, and i didn;t detect much tannin. finish was mostly tart with some salinity. like several 2006 burgundies that i have tasted i think that this wine is somewhat shut down and needs some time. it might be very good then.
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Showing earth and a touch of brett and some funk, but with fruit to partner up with that. Back end is a touch hard, maybe a bit austere. Given the lovely developed aromatics on the nose I don't believe the palate will ever harmonize.
20% new oak on the wine.
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Nice masculine darker notes of baking spice, red fruits, and a touch of plum; nice extract, smooth, good medium plus tannins; solid and a good food wine.
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8/1/2015 - johnwine Likes this wine: 88 Points
This wine has a nose wafting with cherries, oriental spice and vanilla. The taste is still not balanced but shows tart cherries, tar and red berries. This wine is still not together and needs more time in the bottle.
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5/19/2015 - johnwine Likes this wine: 87 Points
This wine is very tart and closed on the nose and the taste. Hopefully it will develop and ripen over several years.
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2/26/2011 - chcook wrote: 88 Points
Dark color. nose was tight tonight showing dark cherry fruit with significant coaxing. on the palate, there was tart cherry/cranberry flavor with acid backbone. there was some weight and glycerin in the midpalate, and i didn;t detect much tannin. finish was mostly tart with some salinity. like several 2006 burgundies that i have tasted i think that this wine is somewhat shut down and needs some time. it might be very good then.
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11/18/2010 - Ben Christiansen wrote:
Showing earth and a touch of brett and some funk, but with fruit to partner up with that. Back end is a touch hard, maybe a bit austere. Given the lovely developed aromatics on the nose I don't believe the palate will ever harmonize.
20% new oak on the wine.
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9/25/2010 - peternelson wrote: 89 Points
Nice masculine darker notes of baking spice, red fruits, and a touch of plum; nice extract, smooth, good medium plus tannins; solid and a good food wine.
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