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• stufis Likes this wine: 92 points

  May 27, 2022 - Well! Bought 6 at the winery in 2010-11-ish, drank one to test but this is the first of the remainiing 5, stored off-site since purchase.
  
  N: Classic WOE aromatics; 14 years on and it's still so racy, bright, and piercing, which I generally think is more extreme than the best of the quality SCM PNs (I almost fully attribute this to the Schultze's terroir, with it's 900' elevation and windy-duh-exposure). Two hours in and it still rebounds from the glass. Nothing muted here.
  P: PnP at cellar temp. Although it starts a bit reserved, overall it has hardly declined from 2009, it seems. Finish lengthens noticably after an hour or so. Red fruits and the WOE spiciness on full display. The Francois Freres oak is all but passe here (as opposed to a 2012 last week that was still oak-dominant). Super balanced. At it's peak, it seems.

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