2008 Spring Mountain Vineyard Elivette

Community Tasting Notes (21) Avg Score: 92.4 points

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  9/28/2023 - pdadams66 Likes this wine: 90 Points

  From a half bottle.
  Still driving very well. Balanced fruit and sweet oak. A few years left but excellent now.

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  6/16/2023 - HandmadeHomemade Likes this wine:

  Entering maturity, there is still an upside to storage for more tertiary notes. I think the wine has the gumption to go too. Slo ox'ed for 3hrs at cellar temp. Served without decant.
  
  Color is dark purple fading to a bricked rim, intense. Aroma is pronounced, and intense. Black currant black cherry, mint, oak, dusty chocolate/earth, and fermented tobacco leaf. Complex and inviting. In the mouth, the wine is full body, high alcohol, big mouthfeel. I get full glycol sweetness- lots of black cherry liqueur, combined with some silty tannins that really dry things out. The wine has the balance of a teeter-totter: one side with an elephant, opposite- another elephant. Flavors match the nose in intensity and description, you really feel that dusty cocoa though- the wine seems to be in a real happy spot as of now. Drink or hold in the next 10 or so years, well made.

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  5/14/2023 - LuisMaimoni@Yahoo.com wrote:

  To add to the observations of others: this wine is still going strong at 2023, and can definitely be kept for longer if desired. The most interesting thing about it, to me, is how the taste/flavor profile changed over time. Don't forget to decant; there is a fair amount of sediment.

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  12/13/2022 - pdadams66 Likes this wine: 91 Points

  With Peter at Bar Agricole. Great now, will go a few more years.

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  12/12/2021 - pdadams66 Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Drinking very well - excellent Bordeaux blend, reaching maturity.

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