2016 Next of Kyn Touriga Nacional Número Dois

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  6/6/2020 - shadow wrote: 97 Points

  Nose is blue berry fruit cake
  First sip, thick but nice palate pleasing balance, ever so faint trace of dusty tannin.
  Leather, smoked mushrooms, black cigar tobacco.
  Its not Cab, or Pinot, or Sarah, its its own flavor, unique.
  Is it can't do without good, no.

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  3/15/2020 - csimm wrote:

  On initial pull, the nose showed ripe blackberry, plum, and incense smoke aromas. Similar on the palate, with a fascinating smorgasbord of bramble and chewy ripe flavors of muddled blackberry, dripping and fleshy smashed plum, earthy dark black raspberry, Indian spice, and camphor. Epic execution in the beginning, with a balanced delivery that was a huge mouthful without being globular or heavy. The alcohol was well hidden by the masses of dark fruit. Finishes a little gummy and plush. The initial sips on PnP were the best.
  
  And then air hit this....
  
  Followed over a few hours in the decanter at cellar temperature. On a revisit a couple hours later, this monkey had morphed into a funky cotton candy machine, with a sweet and sappy confection-driven profile that overrode what purity of fruit ever existed in the beginning. A goofy creosote note surged through its veins, making me question if we ultimately had a flawed pirate on our hands here. In reality, I think this wackamo just shut down and got goofy on us.
  
  As what seems to be standard protocol with my palate and SQN/NoK, refraining from popping the cork until around a decade from vintage seems most prudent. Try this “#2” again in 2026+.
  
  Many thanks to DD for sacrificing this bottle in the name of science!

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