Back and blue savory fruit on the nose and palate with a touch of licorice and sweet vanilla. High abv hidden well and drinks very smooth with just a little air. Enjoyable now with no rush.
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Deep, rich and fruit driven. Blueberry and blackberry dominate. Long finish but very little development. What you start with is what you end with. While there isn't anything subtle about this wine, it's really enjoyable if you like this style
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Startlingly similar to the Apriori in flavor profile. If you open now, give it a good hour decant or so, as upon the PnP, I found it tasting spoofed. But then it smoothed out. Good stuff.
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This pours inky dark in colour with a purple/blue core. Evidently quite a ripe, young reductive leaning style. The nose is of sweet dark cherries, raspberry cordial, strawberry coulis, stewed blueberries, confectioners sugar. Loads of sweet ultra ripe fruit in the classical California idiom. The palate features high tannin, elevated acid and an elevated alcohol, fruit forward finish. The declared 15.2% is masked fairly well by the fruit, but is still there. Overall not really my style.
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This is the most tasty, smoothest and most complex wine I recall ever tasting from the Paso Robles Central Coast region. Dark garnet purple colored, full bodied, complex, rich bright, expressive but smooth and nicely polished with ripe blue berry fruits accented by a layer of sweet soft mocha, hints of vanilla, violet and cinnamon spice with sweet oak on the moderate finish.
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Splash decant ... Obviously still super young (OK, I admit it, we opened this one accidentally, over on of our earlier vintages), this actually is better out of the gate than I'd expected. Fruit is fairly well integrated, and while tannins are still omnipresent, they're not pokey or rough. Blackberry to open, but not overly primary, and oak is minimal. Very, very dry with spice notes around the edges.
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2/29/2020 - bbcc66 Likes this wine: 89 Points
Decanted 1/2 hr. Consistent, big, fruit-forward tastes of darker fruits.
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12/11/2018 - SICILIAN-SOLE Likes this wine: 92 Points
Back and blue savory fruit on the nose and palate with a touch of licorice and sweet vanilla. High abv hidden well and drinks very smooth with just a little air. Enjoyable now with no rush.
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8/22/2017 - The Wine Write Likes this wine: 91 Points
PNP, drank over 2 nights. Still a solid Bordeaux blend with life ahead. Blue fruit profile and nice mouthfeel.
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5/8/2016 - MystMrQ Likes this wine: 89 Points
Deep, rich and fruit driven. Blueberry and blackberry dominate. Long finish but very little development. What you start with is what you end with. While there isn't anything subtle about this wine, it's really enjoyable if you like this style
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4/2/2016 - vplettnersaunders wrote: 88 Points
Fruit bomb. Very jammy. Little sediment. Sweet, like a sangria almost.
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11/20/2015 - ledocq Likes this wine: 91 Points
Startlingly similar to the Apriori in flavor profile. If you open now, give it a good hour decant or so, as upon the PnP, I found it tasting spoofed. But then it smoothed out. Good stuff.
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11/17/2015 - silbakor wrote:
violets! huge tannins. very dry. interesting!
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10/4/2015 - The Wine Write wrote: 91 Points
Splash decant. Multi-varietal blend, Cab dominant. Smooth, delicious wine. Lots of life ahead.
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7/15/2015 - mhewitt wrote: 93 Points
Massive wine that will be better with time as it loses some baby fat. Still drinking great now, and if you have a few bottles its worth opening.
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5/25/2015 - Wine Canuck wrote:
This pours inky dark in colour with a purple/blue core. Evidently quite a ripe, young reductive leaning style. The nose is of sweet dark cherries, raspberry cordial, strawberry coulis, stewed blueberries, confectioners sugar. Loads of sweet ultra ripe fruit in the classical California idiom. The palate features high tannin, elevated acid and an elevated alcohol, fruit forward finish. The declared 15.2% is masked fairly well by the fruit, but is still there. Overall not really my style.
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4/25/2015 - rmcnees Likes this wine: 92 Points
This is the most tasty, smoothest and most complex wine I recall ever tasting from the Paso Robles Central Coast region. Dark garnet purple colored, full bodied, complex, rich bright, expressive but smooth and nicely polished with ripe blue berry fruits accented by a layer of sweet soft mocha, hints of vanilla, violet and cinnamon spice with sweet oak on the moderate finish.
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4/19/2015 - markandsusanw wrote: 91 Points
Splash decant ... Obviously still super young (OK, I admit it, we opened this one accidentally, over on of our earlier vintages), this actually is better out of the gate than I'd expected. Fruit is fairly well integrated, and while tannins are still omnipresent, they're not pokey or rough. Blackberry to open, but not overly primary, and oak is minimal. Very, very dry with spice notes around the edges.
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