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Arinbraghe Likes this wine: 96 points
February 14, 2014 - Barely two months into 2014, and already I know I'm unlikely to drink a wine I like better than this one for the rest of the year. Just in a perfect place for drinking, at least for me; I like wine that's past its primary fruit stage but still displays varietal character and idiosyncrasy, and that's where this vintage of Trevallon is right now -- still redolent of Cabernet, still with a dark mineral lattice from the Syrah to furnish structure, but seamlessly melded together and perfectly complementary. What's perhaps most interesting is that it's the acidity rather than the tannin that's the cornerstone of the wine's structure, the pole around which all the other elements revolve. This changes minute by minute in the glass, there's no real point to take you on a merry-go-round of flavors and aromas; suffice it to say that the gestalt effect here is one of utter deliciousness. This was the last bottle of a friend's stash of '98s, and I feel so lucky to have been in on it. Really worth investigating right now, if you have any.
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