Blend of free-run Cab Sav, Ca Franc, and Petit Verdot, aged 22 months in 100% new French oak. Opaque ruby color, offers aromatic contrast between dark, savory cherry fruit, chargrill and graphite, and top notes of green pepper and rose petals. The palate explodes with detailed flavors and its tannins are already resolved and chocolaty, with seamless acidity and exotic spicy layers emerging on the extended finish. Wow!
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50% Merlot, 20% Syrah, 15% Cabernet Franc, 15% Cabernet Sauvignon The wine finishes for 10 months in a combination of second, third and fourth-year barrique, and about 30% of the total goes into cement.
This vintage does a terrific balancing act with dark fruit and concentration on the one hand and an accessible easy-drinking personality on the other. Black fruit cedes to baked brioche, spice and toasted aniseed.
Way over delivers with a strong bouquet of raspberries and currants, cassis and some tobacco. Juicy and full-bodied, the wine has nice tannin and good acidity. The finish is polished and fresh. It smells like tobacco. The wine finishes long.
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Pure, yet savory, with a stony, mineral punch to the orange peel, strawberries and dried herbs. I love the clarity and the tautness on the palate, with elegant but gutsy flavors of minerals and fruit, together with firm tannins that show Barolo etherealness and power at the same time. Already approachable.
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2019 Daou Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon Estate Cabernet "Soul of a Lion"
4/10/2024 - HyphenNation Likes this wine:
Blend of free-run Cab Sav, Ca Franc, and Petit Verdot, aged 22 months in 100% new French oak.
Opaque ruby color, offers aromatic contrast between dark, savory cherry fruit, chargrill and graphite, and top notes of green pepper and rose petals.
The palate explodes with detailed flavors and its tannins are already resolved and chocolaty, with seamless acidity and exotic spicy layers emerging on the extended finish. Wow!
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2020 Le Macchiole Bolgheri Rosso
4/10/2024 - HyphenNation wrote:
50% Merlot, 20% Syrah, 15% Cabernet Franc, 15% Cabernet Sauvignon
The wine finishes for 10 months in a combination of second, third and fourth-year barrique, and about 30% of the total goes into cement.
This vintage does a terrific balancing act with dark fruit and concentration on the one hand and an accessible easy-drinking personality on the other. Black fruit cedes to baked brioche, spice and toasted aniseed.
Way over delivers with a strong bouquet of raspberries and currants, cassis and some tobacco. Juicy and full-bodied, the wine has nice tannin and good acidity. The finish is polished and fresh.
It smells like tobacco. The wine finishes long.
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2018 Massolino Barolo
12/1/2023 - HyphenNation Likes this wine:
Pure, yet savory, with a stony, mineral punch to the orange peel, strawberries and dried herbs. I love the clarity and the tautness on the palate, with elegant but gutsy flavors of minerals and fruit, together with firm tannins that show Barolo etherealness and power at the same time. Already approachable.
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