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2005 Mount Eden Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon
3/14/2024 - Wicker Parker Likes this wine:
Presents as fresh and really quite young – no tertiary characteristics here. Cedar, thyme, a hint of balsamic, sweet blackcurrant fruit. It doesn't come across as complex, but it does come across as harmonious, and I really would have preferred to wait another 10 years before opening this bottle, as I think the wine would have had more to say if I'd waited. That said – very nice!
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2010 Domaine de la Pépière Muscadet de Sèvre-et-Maine sur lie Vieilles Vignes Clos des Briords
3/2/2024 - Wicker Parker Likes this wine:
Fabulous. This is why I age Briords! This magnum drunk in 2024 is fresh as a daisy and tasting pretty much just like Brooklynguy wrote back in 2016 (I've quoted his Cellartracker note below) but with an additional undertow of subtle earthy creamy mushroom characteristics that make me purr like a kitten. And I'd doubly emphasize the saline finish on the palate, which is simultaneously delicate and assertive.
The excerpt from Brooklyguy that still applies now: "The aromas are wild and complex with preserved lemon and savory herbs and black licorice and smoky minerals - absolutely pungent and fascinating and alluring. Palate is balanced and fresh, and shows a complexity that is equal to the nose, and the citric and saline and mineral finish just goes on and on. Wonderful wine, by any measure."
Couldn't have said better.
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2006 Château Fonbadet
2/22/2024 - Wicker Parker Does not like this wine:
Pinched, drying, not expressive – we should have drank up 10 years ago! (storage was perfect and cork and ullage were equally perfect – just not an interesting wine, I'm afraid.)
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