February 13, 2024 - This one is on the other side of the perfect window now. Short decant. Lack of structure vs other years and is going hard toward raisins and stewed plums. Fruit is gone.
July 2, 2023 - Good pull on cork which has held up wonderfully. Ready out of the gate. Nice fruit and balanced great. Love the fruit at 16 years. Thickness to this but just a density of extract and its not fruit forward at this stage, but has held a decent amount since bottled, or for me, last sampled in 2016. Evolved might be a better description, the way one hopes a good wine will do.
Bouquet of earth and meat and fungus or mushroom, an earthy feel. Age has done this well. Some white border or perhaps bricking in glass at rim. Legs ran medium. Looking forward to each sip. Dirty burgundy. Slightly tart on finish which last over 30 seconds. 2007 wines are real deal.
April 8, 2023 - With age this is quite round. Still clearly new world but with some level of finesse.
February 25, 2023 - 30 minutes decant
Same owner as Harlan.
Nose of cherry interwoven with wood, cedar, like when you put your nose in the sound chamber of a guitar, peppercorn, flower, juniper, blackberry, blueberry, well integrated nose, nothing obtrusive. Beautiful, sweet and captivating aroma.
Cherry, licorice, thick, bright, sweet strawberry, blueberry, minerals, well structured. In a good place and ready for enjoyment. With that said, this wine still has the structure to continue to develop and improve for the next 5 - 10 years but it is already beautiful now. I wished I have more of this.
October 2, 2022 - There were aspects of this wine that I liked, but it did not provide much overall drinking pleasure. Earthy, plummy mature fruit, a complexity on the nose and palate. Noticeable tannins and acid and seemed slightly out of balance to me. Like perhaps it needed more time, but I am not sure the fruit would hold up.
June 16, 2022 - Very powerful yet refined and complex with layers upon layers of primary and secondary notes on the palate. (blackberry, chocolate, cassis, pepper, and licorice)
The nose is elegant with a touch of honey, vanilla, and cedar.
It kept evolving and dancing throughout the night.
March 19, 2022 - Decanted for one hour. Nose of violet, blackberry, blueberry, currant, cedar, spice and forest floor. Black and blue fruit, cocoa, licorice, cedar and spice on the palate. Very long finish. Good depth. Full bodied. Served with grilled ribeyes with a blue cheese, black truffle compound butter.
January 9, 2021 - Decanted for approximately an hour...deep purple hue with slight bricking on the rim. Baked blueberries on the nose with hints of leather and perhaps a touch of cedar with medium intensity at best. On the palate the wine is bright, acidic, with medium to full body and medium fruit. The tannins are polished and well integrated. It seemed slightly out of balance between fruit and acid. This is well made wine but far from a stunner. Perhaps could have been way better earlier on or in another 3-5 years. I tend to go with the former rather than the latter.
December 26, 2020 - I found this a bit faded since my previous bottle 18 months ago. My opinion was not shared by everyone in our group. Medium garnet in color with some bricking at the rim. An earthy, bordeaux like nose, consistent with my prior experience. On the palate, I found less fruit than before, rich plum, cassis and blackberry, and more leather, tobacco and a bit of cedar. Full bodied with a medium, earthy finish.
March 21, 2020 - I would give it another 5-10+. Better on day2 but not jump out of the glass appeal as it should. Lots of potential, aged fruit, tannins, tobacco & smoke but not ready for prime time.