Rich with delicious high acidity perfectly balanced with off-dry nature. Orange in color with candied fruits, dried apricot, dried peach, some vanilla and floral notes. Went perfectly with a braised venison meal.
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Three our decant and still shy at the beginning. Opened up more after a couple of hours. Still quite youthful for an 05 with lots of notes of fresh fruit - cassis and blackberry - and some herbaceous and floral notes. The use of new oak is evident but not overbearing. Vanilla and chocolate stand out. Some tertiary notes emerging, leather, bacon, a bit of forest floor and a fair amount of blackberry jam. Chalky tannins that can still soften but which are not too overbearing. Overall, though this wine will likely continue to develop nicely, it doesn't have the underlying intensity to have a long-lived maturity. Peak drinking, with a rapid decline to follow, likely in the next 5-7 years.
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2004 Bodegas Ollauri Rioja Conde de los Andes Colección Histórica
1/16/2023 - Octavio_91 wrote: 96 Points
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2010 Zind-Humbrecht Riesling Brand Vieilles Vignes
1/3/2023 - Octavio_91 wrote: 93 Points
Rich with delicious high acidity perfectly balanced with off-dry nature. Orange in color with candied fruits, dried apricot, dried peach, some vanilla and floral notes.
Went perfectly with a braised venison meal.
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2005 Château Branon
12/16/2022 - Octavio_91 Likes this wine: 94 Points
Three our decant and still shy at the beginning. Opened up more after a couple of hours.
Still quite youthful for an 05 with lots of notes of fresh fruit - cassis and blackberry - and some herbaceous and floral notes.
The use of new oak is evident but not overbearing. Vanilla and chocolate stand out.
Some tertiary notes emerging, leather, bacon, a bit of forest floor and a fair amount of blackberry jam.
Chalky tannins that can still soften but which are not too overbearing.
Overall, though this wine will likely continue to develop nicely, it doesn't have the underlying intensity to have a long-lived maturity. Peak drinking, with a rapid decline to follow, likely in the next 5-7 years.
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