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• WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine: 98 points

  April 27, 2024 - Nose: Immediate black currants that give way to a deep and dark purple flowers - imagine lavender with the floral aspect turned down a bit, while the herbaceous quality is turned up. Deep and aromatic earth that reach far down into some black minerals, just scratching the surface of some tar.
  
  Palate: Awesome black and dark red fruits. A tasty ripeness that gets properly suppressed by bitter minerals, black earthy soil, and a clean black graphite that lingers into the finish, providing a tasty savoriness that just hangs around. As it sits on the palate and finishes up, you're left with a gentle impression of a tree slowly shedding its bark. With some time, a gentle but firmly spiced oak comes through, with dark cocoa too (and I mean 75%+). The savoriness also takes a step back with some time, letting the gently ripe fruits to come out to perform, as well as some nice freshness for a guest appearance.
  
  Thoughts: A flavorful, savory, brooding beast that knows how to grow and flower - I love it. I love the strong savory aspects of this, and with some time, this shows it can be disciplined and tasteful about how it wants to show itself with awesome balance. This and another Kinsman bottling was overshadowed by a different wine in a previous tasting, so I had to re-taste this to give it the proper treatment it deserves.
  
  Treatment: Juice stayed ~58°-64° throughout the entire tasting of ~7 hours. Pulled corked, poured a glass, recorked right after (rinse and repeat). Slow-ox'd, no decanter used. Might wanna serve at cellar temp for an added freshness effect.

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