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• rocknroller wrote: 94 points

  December 31, 2013 - New Years Eve Celebration Offline (Rocknroller's (Kevin & Vicki's Place)): Medium gold color. PNP, drank 1 glass over 30 minutes. The nose shows orange peel, orange, lots of honeysuckle. The palate is dense and full bodied, viscous, citrus, orange, vanilla, crème brule, honey, spice and has a long botrytis infused finish. Nice acid balancing the sweet fruit here too. Delightful!! Thanks Luis. 94+(+)pts.

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• milesdavis commented:

  1/4/14, 5:39 PM - Rocknroller:
  
  I appreciate your well-defined description. However, I am unfamiliar with honeysuckle, only knowing it has nothing to do with honey. Can you direct me in furthering my knowledge/palate on the topic of honeysuckle?
  Thanks, keep up the good work.
  
  Miles

• rocknroller commented:

  1/5/14, 12:36 PM - Thanks for the question milesdavis. As a kid we used to play in the woods and on the hills behind our house. We would often find honeysuckle bushes. They are very fragrant with a sweet aroma, and they have a tasty sweet honey-like nectar in the bulbs of the flower. We would smell them and then bite off the bulbs and savor that sweet nectar. I often am reminded of this aroma and flavor in the best Sauternes.
  
  "Many of the species have sweetly-scented, bilaterally symmetrical flowers that produce a sweet, edible nectar, and most flowers are borne in clusters of two (leading to the common name of "twinberry" for certain North American species)." - Wikipedia
  
  photo links: http://allanbecker-gardenguru.squarespace.com/storage/may1307_honeysuckle.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1327646648130
  
  http://cdn-us-ec.yottaa.net/5228cafe86305e2ae80001f3/www.brighterblooms.com/v~3.9/images/P/goldflame-honeysuckle-2-220.jpg?yocs=_&yoloc=us

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