9/11/19, 1:17 PM - Do you remember if you decanted or was it not necessary
9/11/19, 1:23 PM - Thank you. Think of opening my bottle for as a birth year wine for a few of my friends.
5/15/18, 9:16 PM - Have you had any more of these recently? Have a few bottles and was trying to figure out what I could expect.
4/1/18, 1:23 PM - I know what you mean, but I feel like it may be shutting down for a bit. I had it last year and it was much more open than the one I had recently.
4/1/18, 1:43 PM - Here's to hoping too. They do state on their own site that "We recommend that you drink either between 2016 and 2018 or 2022-2040." So... see you back here in about 4/5 years?
4/1/18, 1:04 PM - Agreed. Maybe needs a another couple years for the fruit to die down just a bit more. But also just found out that my local store still has some of the 14 on the shelf and got giddy.
9/26/17, 3:55 PM - I find that at this point, the 2011 tastes better the next day. Of course you could just open an 85 =)
9/23/17, 7:23 AM - Agreed. Way too young still and will probably outlast some of us. Rather open the much more advanced 05s and forget about these 04s for a while.
9/23/17, 7:21 AM - From the way you describe, it seems to be fairly tradition in style? Wouldn't it benefit from some more time t hen?
9/10/17, 8:39 AM - Almost exactly to the word what I thought. Feels like it has great structure and potential and will round out more and the finish will lengthen as it softens a bit with age.
9/8/17, 1:56 PM - Perhaps you had an odd bottle? The most recent one I had earlier this year still drank extremely young and seems to still have many many years ahead.
8/8/17, 3:25 PM - I agree. The 2004 seems to be at least 4 or 5 years behind the 05. As a long life ahead of it.
7/16/17, 12:49 PM - Agreed with the others, must have been a bad bottle. This should have at least 8-10 years to reach it's real peak for an aged rioja, and probaly another decade or so of drinkability. Try to find another bottle, because I feel like the 04 is actually less ready than the 05 is.
6/26/17, 4:03 PM - How is the acid balance on this? Is it more a low acid, Cali cab? Or is it more like the Mountain wines with good balance?
7/13/17, 6:56 AM - Thanks for the reply. As long as it doesn't taste like something from Orin Swift, I'll give it a try.
7/9/17, 6:42 PM - What do you think?
6/14/17, 1:58 PM - How long did you decant it for? I'm thinking of opening one to see how it is and I am figuring around a 4 hour decant before I check.
6/1/17, 2:07 PM - Do you actually think the 05 will ever reach the levels of the 91?
6/1/17, 7:19 PM - Thanks for the response. It will be very hard to keep my hands off it as it seems like it is still drinking amazingly right now.
5/13/17, 6:13 AM - Did you by any chance decant? And if so, for how long?
5/12/17, 3:16 PM - How long did you decant it for? And was it throwing a lot of sediment? I have a couple and was thinking of popping one.
3/29/17, 12:02 PM - Really? I didn't really get much of the oaky and butteriness you are referring to at all.
3/16/17, 12:47 PM - I guess you received your winter allocation recently? Glad a went in on these too.
3/19/17, 8:19 AM - very lucky indeed.
3/17/17, 10:53 AM - Too bad I have to wait till April to receive mine as I'm on the east coast. How much air did you give? Did you drink it over an extended period of time?
2/20/17, 2:53 PM - Over how long did you drink this? Decant?
2/20/17, 10:02 PM - I decanted and saw more and more red berry fruit with a balancing acid come out as we passed the two hour mark in the decanter. It was one of those eye-opening bottles for me.
2/12/17, 8:24 AM - Does it need a decant? Or would you suggest just a half and hour or so of bottle breathing?
2/7/17, 12:49 PM - Did you decant at all or was it just a pop and pour?
2/4/17, 8:38 AM - Sounds like it was oxidized. Too bad.
1/14/17, 8:37 AM - Was it a fruit bomb with vanilla? Or is it more balanced?
1/6/17, 9:32 PM - Was it decanted? And if so, after how many hours did you feel it hit its peak? I'm still waiting on my allocation....
1/7/17, 12:35 PM - Thanks for the info.
12/12/16, 9:41 PM - Might it be possible that you had a bad bottle or it just needed more air? I highly doubt that it's past its prime.
12/12/16, 10:14 PM - That's too bad... I've had this a few times and one fairly recently and I would say it's got over a decade left.
11/25/16, 10:30 AM - How much time did you give it? I remember I had to decant this for over 6 hours before it began to reach some semblance of balance and got to a really nice place.
11/28/16, 2:45 PM - If you have a chance to try it again, you may want to give it lots of air.
11/10/16, 9:17 AM - How much air did your bottle need to open up?
11/7/16, 1:39 PM - I just drank one last night too. And I agree, it has years left and is still on the young side. Took hours in a decanter to fully open up.
8/28/16, 12:15 PM - Agreed with Squirrel, unless it was improperly stored, this is many more years of life ahead.
8/6/16, 6:29 PM - My local store is selling these for about $20 a bottle, so maybe I will pick up a few more and lay them down. Thank you.
7/22/16, 6:19 AM - Did you remember to do the shake?
7/22/16, 6:35 AM - They use some nitrogen in the bottling instead of a lot of sulfites so the flavor can be completely dead. The shake is kind of hard to explain in words so i'll just give you a link that explains it better than I will be able to.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsXO6yoAlFo
7/7/16, 2:34 PM - How long was the total decant time before consumption? Was it decanted then returned to bottle immediately or was it given time in the decanter?
5/21/16, 6:10 AM - I may just have to hunt down his other stuff. Thanks!
4/29/16, 12:40 PM - Agreed. Had this also, and there may be other notes I missed, but the initial sweetness just overtakes everything. I see what you mean by the Caymus comparison with sweetness, but sweetness can be really good when it's so well balanced like a good Caymus is. This, is no Caymus.
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