500 ml bottle. Baking spice and red cherry aromas, nicely mature. Similar flavors, slightly more advanced, with moderately firm tannins on finish. These were better a few years back, so certainly time to drink up,
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I haven't revisited this wine in 3 or 4 years, and it is still holding up well in these odd little 500 ml bottles. Still fresh red cherry on nose with a slight cola hints and some earth background notes. Same red cherry on palate, modest spice, but an ever-so-slightly bitter hint on finish.
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Bricking medium dark red violet color; mature, forest floor, pine needle, mushroom nose; mature, forest floor, bacon fat palate with green notes; medium finish 89+ pts.
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Medium maroon color, with noticable bricking on rim. the legs are thin but slow. The nose is strong! Hot asphalt, turning over a pile of week-old grass clippings, sweat, rootbeer, iodine and wet iron. The initial palate is tart, tangy burnt rubber. The iron & iodine carry through with white pepper on the mid-palate. The same complexity in the nose isn't as evident on the palate. But, everything mellows and warms nicely on the finish, which has wonderful length. There's a fecundity and life energy to this bottle that evokes images of buxom farm women harvesting fruit on a drowsy, warm summer day. Cue Beethoven's 6th symphony Pastoral, or the final movement of the 9th full volume and look to the sun as it slowly sets on the horizon... That's livin'!
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10/30/2016 - Burgundy Al wrote: 88 Points
500 ml bottle. Baking spice and red cherry aromas, nicely mature. Similar flavors, slightly more advanced, with moderately firm tannins on finish. These were better a few years back, so certainly time to drink up,
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8/7/2012 - Burgundy Al wrote: 89 Points
I haven't revisited this wine in 3 or 4 years, and it is still holding up well in these odd little 500 ml bottles. Still fresh red cherry on nose with a slight cola hints and some earth background notes. Same red cherry on palate, modest spice, but an ever-so-slightly bitter hint on finish.
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8/21/2010 - rjonwine@gmail.com wrote: 89 Points
Bricking medium dark red violet color; mature, forest floor, pine needle, mushroom nose; mature, forest floor, bacon fat palate with green notes; medium finish 89+ pts.
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5/29/2010 - oldgrowth45 wrote: 91 Points
Medium maroon color, with noticable bricking on rim. the legs are thin but slow. The nose is strong! Hot asphalt, turning over a pile of week-old grass clippings, sweat, rootbeer, iodine and wet iron.
The initial palate is tart, tangy burnt rubber. The iron & iodine carry through with white pepper on the mid-palate. The same complexity in the nose isn't as evident on the palate. But, everything mellows and warms nicely on the finish, which has wonderful length. There's a fecundity and life energy to this bottle that evokes images of buxom farm women harvesting fruit on a drowsy, warm summer day. Cue Beethoven's 6th symphony Pastoral, or the final movement of the 9th full volume and look to the sun as it slowly sets on the horizon... That's livin'!
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4/19/2010 - jmh st louis wrote: 88 Points
gentle flavors of red cherry and graphite on a lite finish.
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