September 24, 2022 - Past its prime and out of balance. It comes on like a freight train full of fruit and sweet on the palate after an hour decant. The tannins are almost fully resolved and there is a lack of acidity to round out the mouth feel. I feel bad that I didn't get to this wine in its heyday
March 30, 2014 - Very nice. Holding up well and will hold for at least a few more years.
August 21, 2013 - Super! Buy more if any come up at auction.
December 16, 2012 - It is a shame but this was the last of this wine
June 30, 2012 - Smooth and rich, substantial fruit remains, leather and tea on the palette.
December 22, 2011 - This took a while to open up. On the PnP it was just bad. After 30 min it started to get palatable, 60 min to start tasting good, and 90 min before it started to sing! This was also a 1.5L that we opened. Once it opened up I thought it was quite good, impressive to say the least, but my friends were being little negative Nancy's because it tasted so bad on the PnP. No flavor profile to provide, but I would gladly buy and drink another bottle!
November 20, 2010 - At home. A beauty, still with purple highlights. Very fine "winey" nose. Rich, thick-smelling. Big, rich, bold on the palate. Still showing plenty of grapey fruit at 9 years of age. Not much in the way of secondary characteristics, very straightforward fruit bomb, but very good. 5-12-16-7: 90/100
February 3, 2010 - Simply lucious and jammy.
September 6, 2009 - dense color, chocolate and vanilla nose, still with great berry fruit, soft tannins. Outstanding!!93 to 94 points
April 24, 2009 - Wow! Dark and inky in color and filled with notes of chocolate and raspberry