9/13/2015 - Champagneinhand Likes this wine:

I had planned to keep this for the long run, but it was there and I grabbed it. Sadly it was completely shut down with the first glass. Closed and hard tannins. I swirled for about an hour and I got a whiff of dried cherry, so I left it overnight in an open decanter. Today this is a very different wine. It is still quite young, tannic and acidic, but the sour cherries are there as are the road tar and rose petals on the bouquet. Really acidic and it needs food, but decent pizza wine. I wish I had left this for 5 more years.

12/19/2013 - David_T wrote:

Similar to previous bottles, but this time the fruit had fallen off somewhat leaving more of the acid & especially tannins but little fruit to accompany them. These have been quite nice & I have several bottles left but I would recommend and will be drinking them all soon.

5/31/2012 - Ron Felthoven wrote:

Upon opening I got a big hit of cannabis resin on the nose. Not the piney, Humboldt kind, but the kind scraped from the inside of a multi-chamber pipe, but in an appealing non-rancid way. This was complemented by Bing cherries, plums and some forest floor. In the mouth it was more of the same fruit, but made a bit more high-toned by the medium plus acid. This is quickly buttressed by a smoky earthiness and a finish of toasted marshmallows, roses and watermelon, which was quite juicy and medium in length. The tannins are just barely noticeable and very fine, providing the slightest drying sensation. This wine is elegant, beautiful, layered and restrained. It has the gorgeous aromatic perfume and the funkiness to give it some complexity. Bravo. If you drink this anytime soon, give it at least an hour in the glass to show what it's got.