Community Tasting Note

• YWG Wine Guy Likes this wine: 90 points

  July 18, 2013 - This is tasty stuff, will hold and mature over next few years and has great low price point for this whole package. Of note, this is better than the '08 i tried previously. Approaching a fruit bomb type experience, BUT has enough backbone and character to balance everything out. Be prepared for a rich experience.
  
  Nose is clearly earth/must like in quality. Sweaty soaks? Dark, purple fruit. Palate is sharp with acid (needed) and light coating tannins - but overall is kind of warm and enveloping. The fruit is ripe and a hair sour cherry/prune, light leather and a little vegetal note on finish. The fruit has a subtle but distinctly nice sweet quality to it that is kind of refreshing (i don't like anything remotely off-dry). I sampled this a hair cool and after being open for 1-2 hours (needed).
  
  I would recommend strong buy here and somthing to sample out to 2016+. Cheers.

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