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89 Points

Tuesday, August 10, 2010 - blind tasted ...

color: purple, med translucency, tears stained ...
nose: med+ intensity, very sweet violets, very sweet frency oak, very ripe sweet smelling black fruit, lots of sugar,
palate: dry acid is med tannin is med (WB) body med + alc est 14 finish is black ripe fruit, plums, blueberries ...

old world due to ripeness yet still subdued fruit and a certain minerality and earth
France ... a certain sense of terroir
2005 due to its old world ripeness ...

thought it could be a bordeaux (blend) or a syrah ... yet it was too ripe to be from the north.

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