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• HowardNZ Likes this wine: 96 points

  November 12, 2014 - Andrew's and Howard's birthday dinner (Hippopotamus Restaurant, Wellington): Deep garnet colour. And wow, what a gorgeous nose! A full spectrum of aromas: spice, perfume, violets and other dark flowers, sweet, dark cherries and other red and black fruits ... very aromatically complex. Another wine where you just want to take it in the corner and sniff it for half an hour. On the palate, this wine is hugely intense, large scaled but very focused. Quite explosive on the palate. The palate shows some evolution and is in a lighter style with sappy and spicy flavours (the latter partly from the oak, not yet fully integrated). Multi-layered with a complex flavour profile. Nick said he chose this DRC for its combination of the forward vintage and the site, notwithstanding Burghound indicating a drinking window from 2019. Accessible now, but this wine will improve in the medium term in the cellar, no doubt. Thanks very much Nick.

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