Superb! Bought at auction, so fingers crossed. Cork was pretty loose in the bottle neck. But wine seemed unaffected. Dark purple. Loads of dark fruit; just a hint of tannins. Has many years of good drinking ahead.
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Decanted two hours before service. Paired with lamb chops.
This is a huge wine that's not even close to maturity. Huge, mouth drying tannins. Blackberries, licorice, and vanilla on the palate. Totally opaque purple color. Lots of sediment. Drink now with a couple of hours of air, or keep over the next 20 years.
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On the pop 'n pour this was rough and tannic. 90 minutes later, the chamber maiden turned into Cinderella. This is a massive wine, but silky smooth with mouth drying tannins on the finish.
Color is ink black with a deep currant-purple rim.
A nose of blackberry, strawberry, blueberry, and a hint of vanilla and licorice.
The mouth drying, massive palette with licorice, flowers, and currants. It lasts for several minutes.
The acidity makes the mouth salvate, but the enormous mouthfeel balances it. Truly a magnificent wine that will last for many, many, more years.
OMG! How can a wine be this monstrous...yet SO soft?!! Black as night, with a little raspberry on the rim......gobs of liqueured berry fruit with perfect sweetness to the dry.....mouthcoating glycerin, teeth staining...yet the tannins have melted away leaving an amazing softness like a tempurpedic mattress! Has great youthful acidity, crushed stones for firmness, and fantastic flavors of licorice, graphite powder, warm brownies, white pepper, lilac and white flower florals. Slight aged nuances of rich earth and wet tobacco leaves.....but thats grabbing. Awesome wine....might be eternal?
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[Decanted at 2pm. So much inky sediment that I could not see through the bottle even with a very bright light.] Massive nose of ripe blackberries, licorice, lavender, and chocolate. Incredibly rich and silky in the mouth with a wave of tannin on the finish. I will leave it in the open decanter in hopes that those tannins will soften. The fruit and finish are amazing. I think I'll be ordering the prime rib tonight! [2 hours in the open decanter, then about 2 hours back in the bottle.] Really singing now. Lush, complex, brilliant winemaking. Just wow. Everyone loves it. Perfect with prime rib.
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A heady style of petite. A hedonistic wine and should be enjoyed as such! Opened with a steak but a better match with a good block of dark chocolate for dessert. Deep purple coloring, black plum but some graphite in the background to make it interesting. Good now, throwing some sediment but can go longer. A fun wine.
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DEEP RICH FRUIT IN THE NOSE WITH DRIED PLUMS, LAVENDER, AND MINT. DEEP RICH BERRY FRUIT IN THE FLAVOR WITH DRIED PLUMS, AMAZINGLY SOFT WITH GREAT LEGS, NICE COMPLEXITY, LONG VELVET FNSH
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A Tasting of Petite Sirahs (My Home): Mine and the groups WOTN. I assume this was a Bob Foley wine. Inky in color, shimmering bright. The nose is great, best on the table. Black raspberries, licorice, leather. On the palate, sweet fruit. Black raspberries and blueberries. Slight alcohol notes. Firm tannins. Just delicious. No hurry, but its great today.
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This is a stunner. Silky, plump, great mouthfeel. And full throttle cherry, toasty oak, ripe black fruit, a hint of leather and tobacco. Pretty long finish too.
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Got this one from one of K&L's cellar buyouts. I imagine the original owner bought it on an August morning in Napa and drove around with it in the trunk all day. No capsule, but sealed with a dollop of wax atop the cork. Showed signs of leakage that I should have noticed. Caveat emptor.
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14.8% ABV. Popped and poured. Opaque dark garnet in the glass - still somewhat inky. Heavy oak and vanilla blackberry nose. Full bodied with blackberry jam like flavors on the palate. Decidedly oaky and rather thick and reminiscent of pancake topping, but not in a confection-like way. This surpassed my expectations somewhat. I was prepared for a tannic oaky mess, but there's still decent fruit here.
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At home on Sunday watching Dallas dominate NY (so far). A massive petite-makes the grape's name a real misnomer. Absolutely black, black purple in color. Thick purple legs stain the glass purple tears. Powerful, even grapey, on the nose. Not much in the way of secondary smells early on at least. Surprisingly round in the mouth, yet sports plenty of ripe fruit that almost touches over-ripeness. Notes of chocolate lend complexity. Fairly lengthy finish. Not a wine for drinking on it's own, it really needs BBQ or a spiced-rubbed steak for a foil. 5-11-17-7: 90/100.
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Huge! Big tannins, deep purple/magenta color. Smelled like a barrel sample, which I liked. Splash decanted 1/2 for consumption about 1-2 hours later. Left the other half in bottle to see the difference. Very full blackberry/boisenberry approach, though tannins tied that together. My wife commented that the wine was maybe a bit too extracted, which is rare for her since she's a Cali zin and syrah fan. Consistent with other notes, a long life ahead of this and I'll sit on my remaining bottles for a while.
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A completely different experience from my last bottle. Not nearly as syrupy, with a bigger flavor explosion and more tannins. Drank over the course of 4 evenings and it evolved each day. Very enjoyable.
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14.8% ABV. Inky black magenta in the glass. On the nose this Pet was showing bright, somewhat lemony, blackberry and boysenberry fruit with some secondary tar. Coming back for more I noticed a touch of slightly nutty toasted seeds. Fairly classic Pet all around. Full bodied but with bright tangy red raspberry fruit keeping it fairly light on its feet. A little bit short and a little bit too lemony, but way better than I recall this tasting 4-5 years ago, when it was a monolithic ink bomb.
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Este vino pasó medio inadvertido entre tantas botellas abiertas. Estaba esperando un vino atractivamente tánico y con gran concetración, pero me encontré un vino más bien recatado que, aunque disfrutable, no fue memorable.
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Monster fruit? The understatement of the year. This is so jammy and thick I think I could pour it on my pancakes. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Massively extracted, almost port-like texture on the palate with an instance of mouth puckering tannins and medium/long smooth finish. Sediment coated the glass. This is my first Pride Petite. Are they all like this? My wife is laughing at my purple teeth. Wow, what an experience.
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Boys nite with New World wines, uncommon varietals (Reno, NV): Extremely dark in color, a lot of vanilla and lots of slightly pruned/plummed dark fruits. On the palate very high acidity, fleshy midpalate, very, very firm, but crazy ripe tannin finish of moderate length. A "good" wine for its style and one of the better wines of the night.
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Massive dark fruit as expected from Pride's Petite Sirah. I really found the unfiltered like texture of the wine most appealing to me, especially on the finish. A very nicely made wine especially if you're in the mood for monster fruit.
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My last bottle (until I can't resist the urge to source some more, I guess)........still rich and thick, dark with the ripe nose. I would offer now to drink and enjoy the wine, as it's a rich ride.
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My first bottle was consumed in 2005 it was a dense tannic monster. It seems the drinking window was short because this bottle has lost every bit of the tannic structure and what is left is very dense sweet and somewhat stewed fruit. Color is still black. Nose is nice. But the palate is filled with VERY ripe Plum. I wish I had opened this a year two ago.
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14.8% alcohol. not decanted, but you can/should. i'm frankly stunned by the quality of this wine. yes, it's a massive behemoth. yes, it's super oaked. yes, the color is a virtual mimic of the label, royal purple. yes, it's tannins may never fully shed. no matter, there is so much friggin' incredible fruit, that the wine works. i've been critical of this wineries's recent direction, but this is a throwback to the glory it once knew. call it a guilty pleasure, whatever, but i think this wine is terrific. black licorice, mocha, some blackberry/briar, almost zin-like...borderline raisen. shit, i hope this isn't another carlisle judge family where i thought it was incredible one night, and then felt it was undrinkable the next time i had it. oh, well, all i can do is report what i feel/taste, and i have one more bottle. i certainly like the hedonistic ethos of this wine tonight, but can't believe i agree with FM III on anything. :-)
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I gotta say, I really love this wine, as much as I did a year and a half ago. Density, chocolate, dark berry, a rich wine that never really shows any booze, even at room temp. The finishing touch was this was the bottle from Falltacular 2006, signed by many of the winemakers who attended. Thank you Greg P for the bottle and signatures on it but the wine speaks for itself. Delicious and 3-5 years away from peak still.
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Since drinking this last in December, was looking forward to this wine again, to show to a neighbor who likes big wine. However, this one was bitten by TCA. Not a face slammer but enough to dull and mute the wine, as well smell musty. Damn it.
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No question this is a tooth staining experience. I found it much too pruny and porty for my tastes though. Not sure how it was on release because it doesnt seem to have lost any fruit but seems to have some secondary characteristics emerging. Still very tannic. Not a crisp fruit wine, lots of black fruit...Pridesque for sure.
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A mind stopping experience. The best wine I had in 2006, and by god, I made an effort to drink a lot of them. Mocha, berry, leather, big chocolate on the finish. And I am told this wine has NO new oak. Are you kidding me? After 2 hours, this wine is gigantic, explosive on the palate. Rich, big chocolate, density, black plum jam and god, does it get any better in a wine glass. Just put my hand to my head and went numb after the second glass. Un, friggin', believeable. More, please, more. The finish on this thing went nearly a minute and I think even 24 hours later it's still finishing on the back of my palate. god.
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Decanted about 4.5 hours. On the nose, licorice, tar and black pepper. Did I mention the overwhelming black pepper? It almost made me want to sneeze. On the palate, heavy black licorice and tar, with a port-like consistency, and a dash of chocolate on the long finish before being blasted with the pepper and tannins. While an outstanding wine, this is not my favorite style. Too much like work getting through more than a few sips of this.
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Tasted again about 80+ hours after opening and splash deacant. Then poured back in bottle and corked on kitchen counter. Now wonderful nose of dark fruit, ceder, cardamon and clove with 'sweet tar'. Palate is envolping velvety dark fruit and mulling spice, very port-like. Fruit lingers through tannins and adds to very long finish. Tannins still notable but 1000 times softer than when opened. Still makes your gums tingle but now just adds to the the wine and balances the gobs of fruit. I had given up on this wine but now very glad that I have one more....but when and how to drink that one?
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Splash decanted and started to drink. Huge beast of a wine, dense dark sweet fruit that basically smothers the palate followed by tannins that dissolve your teeth. Incredibly intense! It's like a surprise one-two punch to the palate. Next day it settled a little but still too intense to really drink more than a few sips. Got one left, gonna sit on it for a long long time.
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My trip to Napa, Part 2: Barrel tasting at Pride Mountain (Napa Valley, California, USA): From barrel. This smells so dense, like tar. Jason Goldberger nailed the wine when he said that it smelled like Amarone. Indeed, it was very raisiny in character. The palate showed so much plush fruit that it was like a fleece blanket, and then an unreal blast of tannin comes along and rips your face off. I think the Pride PetS are over the edge for me.
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11/12/2022 - kabert Likes this wine: 94 Points
Superb! Bought at auction, so fingers crossed. Cork was pretty loose in the bottle neck. But wine seemed unaffected. Dark purple. Loads of dark fruit; just a hint of tannins. Has many years of good drinking ahead.
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2/27/2020 - kenv Likes this wine:
[Double decanted at 5pm.]
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2/22/2020 - Border Boss Likes this wine:
This wine needs a couple of hours of air, and then it's outstanding. Great fruit and balanced tannins and acid. This wine will last another 20 years.
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5/19/2018 - Border Boss Likes this wine: 92 Points
Decanted two hours before service. Paired with lamb chops.
This is a huge wine that's not even close to maturity. Huge, mouth drying tannins. Blackberries, licorice, and vanilla on the palate. Totally opaque purple color. Lots of sediment. Drink now with a couple of hours of air, or keep over the next 20 years.
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2/17/2018 - BuffaloLou Likes this wine: 96 Points
On the pop 'n pour this was rough and tannic. 90 minutes later, the chamber maiden turned into Cinderella. This is a massive wine, but silky smooth with mouth drying tannins on the finish.
Color is ink black with a deep currant-purple rim.
A nose of blackberry, strawberry, blueberry, and a hint of vanilla and licorice.
The mouth drying, massive palette with licorice, flowers, and currants. It lasts for several minutes.
The acidity makes the mouth salvate, but the enormous mouthfeel balances it. Truly a magnificent wine that will last for many, many, more years.
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12/3/2016 - Mrbuzz Likes this wine: 96 Points
OMG! How can a wine be this monstrous...yet SO soft?!! Black as night, with a little raspberry on the rim......gobs of liqueured berry fruit with perfect sweetness to the dry.....mouthcoating glycerin, teeth staining...yet the tannins have melted away leaving an amazing softness like a tempurpedic mattress! Has great youthful acidity, crushed stones for firmness, and fantastic flavors of licorice, graphite powder, warm brownies, white pepper, lilac and white flower florals. Slight aged nuances of rich earth and wet tobacco leaves.....but thats grabbing. Awesome wine....might be eternal?
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5/15/2016 - kenv Likes this wine: 96 Points
[Decanted at 2pm. So much inky sediment that I could not see through the bottle even with a very bright light.] Massive nose of ripe blackberries, licorice, lavender, and chocolate. Incredibly rich and silky in the mouth with a wave of tannin on the finish. I will leave it in the open decanter in hopes that those tannins will soften. The fruit and finish are amazing. I think I'll be ordering the prime rib tonight!
[2 hours in the open decanter, then about 2 hours back in the bottle.] Really singing now. Lush, complex, brilliant winemaking. Just wow. Everyone loves it. Perfect with prime rib.
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5/14/2016 - btock wrote: 90 Points
A heady style of petite. A hedonistic wine and should be enjoyed as such! Opened with a steak but a better match with a good block of dark chocolate for dessert. Deep purple coloring, black plum but some graphite in the background to make it interesting. Good now, throwing some sediment but can go longer. A fun wine.
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6/27/2014 - AlexHop wrote: 94 Points
Beautiful bold wine. Drinking great right now.
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5/29/2014 - buckeye76 wrote: 94 Points
DEEP RICH FRUIT IN THE NOSE WITH DRIED PLUMS, LAVENDER, AND MINT. DEEP RICH BERRY FRUIT IN THE FLAVOR WITH DRIED PLUMS, AMAZINGLY SOFT WITH GREAT LEGS, NICE COMPLEXITY, LONG VELVET FNSH
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4/19/2012 - Loren Sonkin wrote: 94 Points
A Tasting of Petite Sirahs (My Home): Mine and the groups WOTN. I assume this was a Bob Foley wine. Inky in color, shimmering bright. The nose is great, best on the table. Black raspberries, licorice, leather. On the palate, sweet fruit. Black raspberries and blueberries. Slight alcohol notes. Firm tannins. Just delicious. No hurry, but its great today.
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3/21/2012 - Filippo wrote: 95 Points
This is a stunner. Silky, plump, great mouthfeel. And full throttle cherry, toasty oak, ripe black fruit, a hint of leather and tobacco. Pretty long finish too.
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7/20/2011 - Drankthewholebottle wrote: flawed
Got this one from one of K&L's cellar buyouts. I imagine the original owner bought it on an August morning in Napa and drove around with it in the trunk all day. No capsule, but sealed with a dollop of wax atop the cork. Showed signs of leakage that I should have noticed. Caveat emptor.
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12/9/2010 - OneLastSyrah Likes this wine:
14.8% ABV. Popped and poured. Opaque dark garnet in the glass - still somewhat inky. Heavy oak and vanilla blackberry nose. Full bodied with blackberry jam like flavors on the palate. Decidedly oaky and rather thick and reminiscent of pancake topping, but not in a confection-like way. This surpassed my expectations somewhat. I was prepared for a tannic oaky mess, but there's still decent fruit here.
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11/14/2010 - MicklethePickle Likes this wine: 90 Points
At home on Sunday watching Dallas dominate NY (so far). A massive petite-makes the grape's name a real misnomer. Absolutely black, black purple in color. Thick purple legs stain the glass purple tears. Powerful, even grapey, on the nose. Not much in the way of secondary smells early on at least. Surprisingly round in the mouth, yet sports plenty of ripe fruit that almost touches over-ripeness. Notes of chocolate lend complexity. Fairly lengthy finish. Not a wine for drinking on it's own, it really needs BBQ or a spiced-rubbed steak for a foil. 5-11-17-7: 90/100.
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7/25/2010 - rpenn77 wrote: 95 Points
Blackberry notes, very rich and almost a creamy texture. A bit of raisin on the backend. Loved it.
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6/4/2010 - ssouth wrote: 93 Points
Still big but really entering a drinking window of many
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4/25/2010 - dridge11 wrote: 95 Points
Stunner, best bottle of the Pride PS I've had to date.
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3/19/2010 - btock wrote: 90 Points
Huge! Big tannins, deep purple/magenta color. Smelled like a barrel sample, which I liked. Splash decanted 1/2 for consumption about 1-2 hours later. Left the other half in bottle to see the difference. Very full blackberry/boisenberry approach, though tannins tied that together. My wife commented that the wine was maybe a bit too extracted, which is rare for her since she's a Cali zin and syrah fan. Consistent with other notes, a long life ahead of this and I'll sit on my remaining bottles for a while.
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1/19/2010 - River Rat wrote:
A completely different experience from my last bottle. Not nearly as syrupy, with a bigger flavor explosion and more tannins. Drank over the course of 4 evenings and it evolved each day. Very enjoyable.
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1/10/2010 - OneLastSyrah wrote: 91 Points
14.8% ABV. Inky black magenta in the glass. On the nose this Pet was showing bright, somewhat lemony, blackberry and boysenberry fruit with some secondary tar. Coming back for more I noticed a touch of slightly nutty toasted seeds. Fairly classic Pet all around. Full bodied but with bright tangy red raspberry fruit keeping it fairly light on its feet. A little bit short and a little bit too lemony, but way better than I recall this tasting 4-5 years ago, when it was a monolithic ink bomb.
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12/28/2009 - hcampana wrote: 88 Points
Several wines and ... a roasted pig in the tradition of Asterix & Obelix!: This wine sort of flew under the radar amidst so many wines. I was expecting a lot of tannic grip and concentration and was surprised to taste a rather subdued wine that was pleasurable but not memorable.
Este vino pasó medio inadvertido entre tantas botellas abiertas. Estaba esperando un vino atractivamente tánico y con gran concetración, pero me encontré un vino más bien recatado que, aunque disfrutable, no fue memorable.
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11/25/2009 - River Rat wrote: 94 Points
Monster fruit? The understatement of the year. This is so jammy and thick I think I could pour it on my pancakes. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Massively extracted, almost port-like texture on the palate with an instance of mouth puckering tannins and medium/long smooth finish. Sediment coated the glass. This is my first Pride Petite. Are they all like this? My wife is laughing at my purple teeth. Wow, what an experience.
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11/8/2009 - markjanes wrote:
Boys nite with New World wines, uncommon varietals (Reno, NV): Extremely dark in color, a lot of vanilla and lots of slightly pruned/plummed dark fruits. On the palate very high acidity, fleshy midpalate, very, very firm, but crazy ripe tannin finish of moderate length. A "good" wine for its style and one of the better wines of the night.
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9/26/2009 - Baeyens Cellars wrote: 93 Points
Massive dark fruit as expected from Pride's Petite Sirah. I really found the unfiltered like texture of the wine most appealing to me, especially on the finish. A very nicely made wine especially if you're in the mood for monster fruit.
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8/29/2009 - Frank Murray III wrote:
My last bottle (until I can't resist the urge to source some more, I guess)........still rich and thick, dark with the ripe nose. I would offer now to drink and enjoy the wine, as it's a rich ride.
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3/3/2009 - Mike V wrote: 86 Points
My first bottle was consumed in 2005 it was a dense tannic monster. It seems the drinking window was short because this bottle has lost every bit of the tannic structure and what is left is very dense sweet and somewhat stewed fruit. Color is still black. Nose is nice. But the palate is filled with VERY ripe Plum. I wish I had opened this a year two ago.
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1/25/2009 - jeff nowak wrote: 93 Points
14.8% alcohol. not decanted, but you can/should. i'm frankly stunned by the quality of this wine. yes, it's a massive behemoth. yes, it's super oaked. yes, the color is a virtual mimic of the label, royal purple. yes, it's tannins may never fully shed. no matter, there is so much friggin' incredible fruit, that the wine works. i've been critical of this wineries's recent direction, but this is a throwback to the glory it once knew. call it a guilty pleasure, whatever, but i think this wine is terrific. black licorice, mocha, some blackberry/briar, almost zin-like...borderline raisen. shit, i hope this isn't another carlisle judge family where i thought it was incredible one night, and then felt it was undrinkable the next time i had it. oh, well, all i can do is report what i feel/taste, and i have one more bottle. i certainly like the hedonistic ethos of this wine tonight, but can't believe i agree with FM III on anything. :-)
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8/17/2008 - Frank Murray III wrote:
I gotta say, I really love this wine, as much as I did a year and a half ago. Density, chocolate, dark berry, a rich wine that never really shows any booze, even at room temp. The finishing touch was this was the bottle from Falltacular 2006, signed by many of the winemakers who attended. Thank you Greg P for the bottle and signatures on it but the wine speaks for itself. Delicious and 3-5 years away from peak still.
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9/15/2007 - Frank Murray III wrote: flawed
Since drinking this last in December, was looking forward to this wine again, to show to a neighbor who likes big wine. However, this one was bitten by TCA. Not a face slammer but enough to dull and mute the wine, as well smell musty. Damn it.
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5/5/2007 - Ekoostik wrote: 89 Points
No question this is a tooth staining experience. I found it much too pruny and porty for my tastes though. Not sure how it was on release because it doesnt seem to have lost any fruit but seems to have some secondary characteristics emerging. Still very tannic. Not a crisp fruit wine, lots of black fruit...Pridesque for sure.
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1/20/2007 - Hillel wrote: 90 Points
Tooth staining goodness.
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12/18/2006 - Frank Murray III wrote:
A mind stopping experience. The best wine I had in 2006, and by god, I made an effort to drink a lot of them. Mocha, berry, leather, big chocolate on the finish. And I am told this wine has NO new oak. Are you kidding me? After 2 hours, this wine is gigantic, explosive on the palate. Rich, big chocolate, density, black plum jam and god, does it get any better in a wine glass. Just put my hand to my head and went numb after the second glass. Un, friggin', believeable. More, please, more. The finish on this thing went nearly a minute and I think even 24 hours later it's still finishing on the back of my palate. god.
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10/10/2006 - PatLee wrote:
A Powerhouse Petite Sirah Tasting (Cafe Esin, San Ramon, CA): Huge wood and menthol on the nose. Good fruit with wonderful mouthfeel. My number 2 and group 2 of the flight.
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3/22/2006 - SacredCow wrote: 90 Points
Decanted about 4.5 hours. On the nose, licorice, tar and black pepper. Did I mention the overwhelming black pepper? It almost made me want to sneeze. On the palate, heavy black licorice and tar, with a port-like consistency, and a dash of chocolate on the long finish before being blasted with the pepper and tannins. While an outstanding wine, this is not my favorite style. Too much like work getting through more than a few sips of this.
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11/15/2005 - Cirrhotic wrote: 95 Points
Tasted again about 80+ hours after opening and splash deacant. Then poured back in bottle and corked on kitchen counter. Now wonderful nose of dark fruit, ceder, cardamon and clove with 'sweet tar'. Palate is envolping velvety dark fruit and mulling spice, very port-like. Fruit lingers through tannins and adds to very long finish. Tannins still notable but 1000 times softer than when opened. Still makes your gums tingle but now just adds to the the wine and balances the gobs of fruit. I had given up on this wine but now very glad that I have one more....but when and how to drink that one?
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11/13/2005 - Cirrhotic wrote:
Splash decanted and started to drink. Huge beast of a wine, dense dark sweet fruit that basically smothers the palate followed by tannins that dissolve your teeth. Incredibly intense! It's like a surprise one-two punch to the palate. Next day it settled a little but still too intense to really drink more than a few sips. Got one left, gonna sit on it for a long long time.
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7/30/2004 - Eric wrote:
My trip to Napa, Part 2: Barrel tasting at Pride Mountain (Napa Valley, California, USA): From barrel. This smells so dense, like tar. Jason Goldberger nailed the wine when he said that it smelled like Amarone. Indeed, it was very raisiny in character. The palate showed so much plush fruit that it was like a fleece blanket, and then an unreal blast of tannin comes along and rips your face off. I think the Pride PetS are over the edge for me.
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