Consumed over two days. Day one - PNP. Beautiful floral nose with red and dark fruit, still noticeable tannins, secondary notes, long finish. Day two - rather remarkable transformation with accentuation of all flavors, expansion of red notes and secondary notes with amelioration of tannins, smooth mouthfeel and long finish. Very enjoyable wine which performed above my expectation.
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Sept. 9 League of Gentlemen Tasting chez moi: Threw into a blind tasting as a surprise wine. This bottle had been opened the day before, but was so acidic and austere that I let it sit overnight. Well, the wait was worth it, and confirmed my suspicion that the wine has all the right elements; it just needs time. Showed the next day as sweet, good fruit, supple, balanced, aromatic. Give it 3 years.
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This needed time in the bottle. Tart and tannic, the fruit needed some coaxing to come forward. Once it did, though, the wine showed as lush and floral, with a hint of almond. A food wine, quite nice. Hold a year or two to allow this to balance out.
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Clear, dark purple red, fading to the rim. Clean nose, cherries, chocolate, violets, hint of almond. Medium palate, very soft, lacks a bit of backbone, however tannins still noticeable, flavours similar to the nose. Medium finish.
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3/4/2023 - Geoff Likes this wine: 93 Points
Consumed over two days. Day one - PNP. Beautiful floral nose with red and dark fruit, still noticeable tannins, secondary notes, long finish. Day two - rather remarkable transformation with accentuation of all flavors, expansion of red notes and secondary notes with amelioration of tannins, smooth mouthfeel and long finish. Very enjoyable wine which performed above my expectation.
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3/14/2020 - Geoff Likes this wine: 90 Points
Nice fruit of red and dark berries. Linear, still a bit tannic. No secondary notes yet. Great with eggplant parmagiano.
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10/26/2019 - Geoff Likes this wine: 92 Points
beautigul complex nose with cherry, berry, smoke and some secondary notes. Very enjoyable.
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8/24/2019 - Geoff Likes this wine: 91 Points
Classy fruit, tannins still present, but balanced, long finish. Still has time to go, and should continue to improve. Very nice.
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9/9/2014 - la turque wrote: 91 Points
Sept. 9 League of Gentlemen Tasting chez moi: Threw into a blind tasting as a surprise wine. This bottle had been opened the day before, but was so acidic and austere that I let it sit overnight. Well, the wait was worth it, and confirmed my suspicion that the wine has all the right elements; it just needs time. Showed the next day as sweet, good fruit, supple, balanced, aromatic. Give it 3 years.
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6/27/2014 - la turque wrote: 90 Points
This needed time in the bottle. Tart and tannic, the fruit needed some coaxing to come forward. Once it did, though, the wine showed as lush and floral, with a hint of almond. A food wine, quite nice. Hold a year or two to allow this to balance out.
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6/18/2014 - Andrewbdc wrote: 87 Points
Clear, dark purple red, fading to the rim. Clean nose, cherries, chocolate, violets, hint of almond. Medium palate, very soft, lacks a bit of backbone, however tannins still noticeable, flavours similar to the nose. Medium finish.
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1/30/2014 - AAD wrote: 80 Points
The 2010 is awful, way to sweet. Makes me think a of Menage à Trois...
J'aimais bien le 2009, mais le 2010 est sucré et condensé, confituré "cheap".
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12/31/2013 - kosmik Likes this wine: 86 Points
Très bien. Nous. Semblé moins symp que le 2009, malgré tout très bon. Quelques mois de cave l'intégreront peut-être.
86-87
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