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• jmoore431 Likes this wine: 92 points

  July 11, 2021 - Tasted blind: this was like hitting a dark wall; brooding very dark ripe fruit; when a tasting partner (who brought this bottle) complained of “torrefaction”, it was an immediate giveaway for me as to the vintage as I’ve experienced that in several’05s. Oddly, I was not similarly turned off by the ripeness as it had a good deal of classy substance “behind the wall”. Another one murdered in infancy. I’m still waiting on several wines from ‘98 through ‘02 to emerge and show their best. I’m very leery of how (when?) top ‘05s will finally turn out. How top critics can unanimously call it the vintage of their lifetime is a little “out there” to me! Hope to live long enough to find out.

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• aajder commented:

  7/14/21, 9:56 AM - I've had quite a few 05's that were open for business and I really feel that they express their terroir very clearly. I think that is what the critics really like about them. I prefer the 2010's because they express a great sense of terroir in a more graceful way.

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