January 13, 2024 - Decanted for four hours...dark in color with blue fruit and some spice...still some tannins that paired well with lamb...medium finish.
December 31, 2023 - Blackberry, plum, olive, some chocolate and a touch of pepper. Concentrated ripe fruit. Big wine, but well balanced, ready now, no rush, but I don’t see this developing further.
November 25, 2023 - Popped and poured. This is a deep red wine with tongue-staining concentration. On the nose, I get blackberry, huckleberry, some subtle pepper, and a touch of smoked meat. In the mouth, this is a full and rich wine, with dark fruit counterbalanced by some nice offsetting acid. The finish is chewy and robust, highlighting blackberry pie and coffee elements. Overall, this is a big, heady, and hedonistic wine – it feels quite young and should have many years left. This is a plainly Paso-style wine. 92+ points.
June 12, 2023 - Better than I recalled last time -- from good to very good. The extra age helped. Drinking perfectly now
November 21, 2022 - Not sure why, but this didn't rock my socks. Usually a pretty big fan, but this lacked the complexity and integration of a full-bodied Saxum. The remaining 3 oz was worse/like vinegar on day two.
October 24, 2022 - Found this in my cellar and have no idea how it got there since I drank my entire allocation between 2017 and 2021. Similar on the palate to other bottles that I have had but for some reason this time the flavors were muted. They were kind of running into each other. Still a really good wine but not what I have come to expect. Still wondering where it came from.
October 9, 2022 - Seems younger than its 12 years. Dark garnet and completely opaque, no brown at the edge. The prominent aroma is one-dimensional, pure blackberries, with some pepper, but I don't get tobacco and some other fruits and spices that others mention. On the palate, rich, powerful, and concentrated black fruit, moderate but soft tannins, definite heat from high alcohol, which increases with the very long aftertaste. Not sure where this is in its evolution. I'd say it's reached its plateau and will stay there for some years, may gain some further complexities with time.
Ric
July 2, 2022 - Tobacco, dark chocolate, some vanilla, black raspberry, açaí, slight pepper. Touch of chalky tannins and green peppercorn. Close to peak but plenty of years ahead. 2025-2035+?
July 2, 2022 - Dark, still young, needed air time, rich balanced, full bodied and combination of red and black fruits.
May 15, 2022 - Dark, dense red fruit; strong forest aroma; tobacco and leather. Quite vibrant.