Another Wine gathering at RJ’s; 4/4/2024-4/7/2024 (Palmetto Bluff, South Carolina): Medium expressive nose displaying super ripe dry red fruit, dry cherry, cherry liqueur, sweet spices and earth. There is pretty noticeable heat at the end. Very good concentration, slightly coiled concentrated red fruit, medium acidity and mineral, and a medium long alcoholic finish. There is not enough blue or black fruit to mask alcohol. Based on this wine, there is a good reason why we don't find too many domestic Gracianos.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No
/ Comment
This clear and deep red wine was drank after opening for an hour. It had a nose and flavours of dark cherries, some strawberries and a bit of tobacco. In each sip was also a surprising amount of pepper that actually added to the enjoyment of this wine. The tannins and acidity were quite strong but you would never know that this wine was over 16% alcohol.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No
/ Comment
MONSTER. Put it back in its cage and let it come out again in a few years. See all of the other reviews about this lush, high alcohol, dark berry beast.
1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No
/ Comment
A massive blast of dark, ripe black and purple-blue fruit unloads on the palate with huckleberry, olallieberry, blackberry, pine cone sap, garrigue, olive brine, creosote, and bitter dark chocolate notes. The mid-palate is an explosion of flavor, nearly to the point that the saturation level is overbearing, almost immediately fatiguing the senses. Partial lift is luckily brought to the ripe, ripe core fruit by way of some underbrush and railroad tie notes. Ends as it starts, with an extracted and somewhat manipulated-tasting confection finish...and a continuing thunderous kerplunk of ripe fruit and alcohol.
Clearly flavorful and fun, but currently lacks seamlessness and sophistication. Grip is a bit catawampus, with booze, fruit, and chemical-earth notes all competing for attention. It’s a fun circus to experience, it’s certainly an attention-grabber, and the flavor factor is off the charts. But if you’re looking for more than just a Krankel cocktail to pop at your next sexy soirée, best to remain patient.
Put this on a regimen of Dilantin, throw it in a dark corner for a few years, and hope its epilepsy wanes. SQN and NoK wines are often teenage party-rockin’ when young, but they seem to perform best overall once they’ve had a decade from vintage to fully get themselves together. This Third Twin is more of an Adam’s rib of the NoK style, so be prepared for modernity on steroids at the moment. For those holding bottles, try again in 2024 with hope it balances-out and doesn’t fully implode under the weight of its own uber-ripe core in the meantime. 95++ points for now.
4 people found this helpful, do you? Yes - No
/ Comment
Like meeting an old friend you barely recognize, familiar but different. Nose in tune with the cherries and duck I’m eating. Dry leather, chocolate girl walking through pine forest on a hot summer day.
1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No
/ Comment
4/5/2024 - dcwino wrote: 92 Points
Another Wine gathering at RJ’s; 4/4/2024-4/7/2024 (Palmetto Bluff, South Carolina): Medium expressive nose displaying super ripe dry red fruit, dry cherry, cherry liqueur, sweet spices and earth. There is pretty noticeable heat at the end. Very good concentration, slightly coiled concentrated red fruit, medium acidity and mineral, and a medium long alcoholic finish. There is not enough blue or black fruit to mask alcohol. Based on this wine, there is a good reason why we don't find too many domestic Gracianos.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
1/6/2024 - Rosengoo wrote: 92 Points
This clear and deep red wine was drank after opening for an hour. It had a nose and flavours of dark cherries, some strawberries and a bit of tobacco. In each sip was also a surprising amount of pepper that actually added to the enjoyment of this wine. The tannins and acidity were quite strong but you would never know that this wine was over 16% alcohol.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
11/7/2020 - eschuldt wrote: 94 Points
Really nice surprise having never had this bottle, slightly lighter than the other wines on the night but delicious.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
3/22/2020 - willthethrill Likes this wine: 95 Points
Lush dark blackberries in a forest with damp smoky wood. Unbelievably yummy.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
11/26/2019 - willthethrill Likes this wine: 95 Points
MONSTER. Put it back in its cage and let it come out again in a few years. See all of the other reviews about this lush, high alcohol, dark berry beast.
1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comment
9/4/2019 - csimm wrote: 95 Points
A massive blast of dark, ripe black and purple-blue fruit unloads on the palate with huckleberry, olallieberry, blackberry, pine cone sap, garrigue, olive brine, creosote, and bitter dark chocolate notes. The mid-palate is an explosion of flavor, nearly to the point that the saturation level is overbearing, almost immediately fatiguing the senses. Partial lift is luckily brought to the ripe, ripe core fruit by way of some underbrush and railroad tie notes. Ends as it starts, with an extracted and somewhat manipulated-tasting confection finish...and a continuing thunderous kerplunk of ripe fruit and alcohol.
Clearly flavorful and fun, but currently lacks seamlessness and sophistication. Grip is a bit catawampus, with booze, fruit, and chemical-earth notes all competing for attention. It’s a fun circus to experience, it’s certainly an attention-grabber, and the flavor factor is off the charts. But if you’re looking for more than just a Krankel cocktail to pop at your next sexy soirée, best to remain patient.
Put this on a regimen of Dilantin, throw it in a dark corner for a few years, and hope its epilepsy wanes. SQN and NoK wines are often teenage party-rockin’ when young, but they seem to perform best overall once they’ve had a decade from vintage to fully get themselves together. This Third Twin is more of an Adam’s rib of the NoK style, so be prepared for modernity on steroids at the moment. For those holding bottles, try again in 2024 with hope it balances-out and doesn’t fully implode under the weight of its own uber-ripe core in the meantime. 95++ points for now.
4 people found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comment
5/12/2019 - shadow wrote: 97 Points
Like meeting an old friend you barely recognize, familiar but different.
Nose in tune with the cherries and duck I’m eating.
Dry leather, chocolate girl walking through pine forest on a hot summer day.
1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comment
3/28/2019 - Backdoctor wrote: 94 Points
3 hour decant then back in bottle. Drank over the next 4 hours. Very good, but needs years in bottle.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment