No official score today....88. The wine had a bit of overaged flavor but still overall was quite nice. Nice fruit with a bit of oak and light smooth tannin. Without the overaged character this would have easily hit 91-92
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Still holding on strong. Fruit is fading a bit but still showing briary red berry with spice and oak. This bottle had a bit of Old wine flavor that showed up after the bottle was open for about an hour
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This bottle was quite nice. It lead with heavy oak and light fruit, flowers and spice followed. We had it with a spicy Mexican dish and the fruit exploded and the spice was more muted. Finish was fruit and an nice balanced and integrated light tannin. I hope my last tow bottles are like this one!!
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Big oak on the nose right after opening. There was still a lot of tart cherry fruit in this nicely aged wine. but this bottle was mostly about oak and tannin. It has good balance and more fruit came forward and oak diminished with time.
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This bottle was a bit hot but had a very nice finish. Over about 2 hours it smoothed out nicely and the fruit began to sing. The last one or two ounces had a lot of fine solids that would not settle out. IF you have this wine decanting can benefit both opening up the wine and separating solids
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11/18/2016 - wtianseter wrote:
No official score today....88. The wine had a bit of overaged flavor but still overall was quite nice. Nice fruit with a bit of oak and light smooth tannin. Without the overaged character this would have easily hit 91-92
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9/2/2015 - wtianseter wrote: 88 Points
Still holding on strong. Fruit is fading a bit but still showing briary red berry with spice and oak. This bottle had a bit of Old wine flavor that showed up after the bottle was open for about an hour
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2/22/2015 - wtianseter wrote: 91 Points
This bottle was quite nice. It lead with heavy oak and light fruit, flowers and spice followed. We had it with a spicy Mexican dish and the fruit exploded and the spice was more muted. Finish was fruit and an nice balanced and integrated light tannin.
I hope my last tow bottles are like this one!!
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1/27/2015 - wtianseter wrote: 88 Points
Big oak on the nose right after opening. There was still a lot of tart cherry fruit in this nicely aged wine. but this bottle was mostly about oak and tannin. It has good balance and more fruit came forward and oak diminished with time.
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7/28/2013 - wtianseter wrote: 87 Points
This bottle was a bit hot but had a very nice finish. Over about 2 hours it smoothed out nicely and the fruit began to sing. The last one or two ounces had a lot of fine solids that would not settle out. IF you have this wine decanting can benefit both opening up the wine and separating solids
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