Benefited with air, nice earthiness in a Oregon Pinot noir but a bit ripe to me and could have used a touch more acidity to provide lift and freshness. Enjoyable nonetheless. Will check back in on this in a few days.
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Decanted 1hr. Medium purple in color, developing, pronounced aromas of sandalwood, black raspberry, black berry, black plum, baking spices, vanilla, damp earth, kola nut, dried orange peel, smoke, cedar, cascara. In the mouth, the wine is dry, high acid, med tannin, med + body, med alcohol, pronounced palate intensity, with a long finish. Drink now, has the potential for ageing (10+ yrs, IMO), overall, very good. Just entering the drinking window, with a long life ahead of it. Very concentrated, but delivers on all fronts, I think time will help this wine.
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Similar nose/flavors to the bottle in 2022, though this one was a bit more wound up. Needed some air, but harmonized after an hour or two of air. Plenty of time in hand on this one.
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big and a bit burly on day one more typical, somewhat primary strawberry and grape juice, with christmas spice (esp. cinnamon) on day two day three savory leaner purple fruit with notable wood (as if there were dregs in the last glass, but there weren't) more for duck/mushroom dish than any lighter fare so three different wines in three days, none of them quite 'ready' would hold for now
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4/5/2024 - Theamateurwinesnob wrote:
Benefited with air, nice earthiness in a Oregon Pinot noir but a bit ripe to me and could have used a touch more acidity to provide lift and freshness. Enjoyable nonetheless. Will check back in on this in a few days.
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2/22/2024 - HandmadeHomemade Likes this wine:
Decanted 1hr. Medium purple in color, developing, pronounced aromas of sandalwood, black raspberry, black berry, black plum, baking spices, vanilla, damp earth, kola nut, dried orange peel, smoke, cedar, cascara. In the mouth, the wine is dry, high acid, med tannin, med + body, med alcohol, pronounced palate intensity, with a long finish. Drink now, has the potential for ageing (10+ yrs, IMO), overall, very good. Just entering the drinking window, with a long life ahead of it. Very concentrated, but delivers on all fronts, I think time will help this wine.
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1/25/2024 - wabi47 wrote:
similar to 9/23 note; plenty of stuffing (and christmas spice) and still evolving over three days
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11/15/2023 - B Paul wrote:
Similar nose/flavors to the bottle in 2022, though this one was a bit more wound up. Needed some air, but harmonized after an hour or two of air. Plenty of time in hand on this one.
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9/1/2023 - wabi47 wrote:
big and a bit burly on day one
more typical, somewhat primary strawberry and grape juice, with christmas spice (esp. cinnamon) on day two
day three savory leaner purple fruit with notable wood (as if there were dregs in the last glass, but there weren't) more for duck/mushroom dish than any lighter fare
so three different wines in three days, none of them quite 'ready'
would hold for now
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