A lighter shade of red with a raspberry rim. Medium bodied with balanced structure and acidity. Dry on the palate with grippy tannins.
Rather fruit forward with raspberries, strawberries, cherries, and blueberries. Also showing some Black Forest cake, sage, pencil shavings, cigar box, and black peppercorns.
Medium long finish of red berries, tobacco, and some lingering mineral notes.
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Bright and sweet blueberries and raspberries, dark chocolate, black pepper and toasted clove with a touch of leather on the nose. Lots of sunshine and ripeness popping out of the glass. This is rich and dense with mouth filling sweet fruits and savoury elements hidden behind the polished structure. Licorice and pepper filled the remaining full-bodied palate. A welcoming freshness emerged towards the end of the finish which has some bitter tannins. Some may find the fruits too ripe and residue sugar on the higher side. Proper aging will balance these. Still young and will need 3-5 years for the tannins to melt away, fruitiness to recede and integrate into the structure. This will provide at least 10 years of drinking pleasure thereafter. 91-93 pts.
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👀 Medium Purple 👃Not decanted. Uncorked and corked overnight. Aerate half hour in glass. The 2018 vintage opens up beautifully to black fruits like blackberry and cherry. The attack are ripe cherry. Swirling and introducing some air reveals cedar and orange zest at mid palate. Finishing with some salinity and minerals. 👅 Juicy, full bodied, and medium intensity. Fresh, bright acidity. Supple, velvety tannins. Well structured. Long and elegant finish.
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5/3/2024 - Gibsonorx wrote: flawed
Corked
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3/19/2024 - Gibsonorx Likes this wine: 90 Points
Nice fresh red berries, smoke, low/mid acidic, dry, medium finish.
Great wine to drink, would decant to bring out the fruity notes.
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7/15/2023 - mfimiani47 Likes this wine: 90 Points
Very good but far too young. Should shine in 3-5 years.
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6/27/2023 - Excaliburjb Likes this wine: 89 Points
Good, reminded me of a Rhone. I think it would pair better with typical Grenache over Shiraz pairings.
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9/10/2022 - VincentStThomas Likes this wine: 90 Points
A lighter shade of red with a raspberry rim. Medium bodied with balanced structure and acidity. Dry on the palate with grippy tannins.
Rather fruit forward with raspberries, strawberries, cherries, and blueberries. Also showing some Black Forest cake, sage, pencil shavings, cigar box, and black peppercorns.
Medium long finish of red berries, tobacco, and some lingering mineral notes.
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7/19/2022 - Psdycp wrote: 91 Points
Bright and sweet blueberries and raspberries, dark chocolate, black pepper and toasted clove with a touch of leather on the nose. Lots of sunshine and ripeness popping out of the glass. This is rich and dense with mouth filling sweet fruits and savoury elements hidden behind the polished structure. Licorice and pepper filled the remaining full-bodied palate. A welcoming freshness emerged towards the end of the finish which has some bitter tannins. Some may find the fruits too ripe and residue sugar on the higher side. Proper aging will balance these. Still young and will need 3-5 years for the tannins to melt away, fruitiness to recede and integrate into the structure. This will provide at least 10 years of drinking pleasure thereafter. 91-93 pts.
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12/17/2021 - Rudolph Schmidt Likes this wine:
Quite the spicy meatball we got here.
PnP then decanted for 1h.
Juicy black fruit, cranberry, cinnamon, dark chocolate, leather, cedar, cigar humidor, pomegranate.
If a French GSM was the quiet smart girl next door - this would be the girl you talk to who could fulfill your pegging fantasy.
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10/17/2021 - ezhyun71 wrote:
3 보통이요
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9/21/2021 - itsallaboutvinum Likes this wine: 90 Points
👀 Medium Purple
👃Not decanted. Uncorked and corked overnight. Aerate half hour in glass. The 2018 vintage opens up beautifully to black fruits like blackberry and cherry. The attack are ripe cherry. Swirling and introducing some air reveals cedar and orange zest at mid palate. Finishing with some salinity and minerals.
👅 Juicy, full bodied, and medium intensity. Fresh, bright acidity. Supple, velvety tannins. Well structured. Long and elegant finish.
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8/13/2020 - jrbates68@gmail.com Likes this wine: 92 Points
Absolutely beautiful. Bursting with rich fruit flavours and very smooth. The best GSM I have tasted.
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