After a 3 hour decant, began to open up, Still big structure, but nicely integrated tannin and great dark fruit character, cracked pepper on the nose. Better on day two. Will easily go another 5 years. Pretty delicious. The wine looks inky colored. There is moderate sediment in the bottle. It smells like blackberry, garrigue, black pepper and tar. It tastes like mineral, black pepper and garrigue. The body is medium/full. The wine has smooth texture. The wine finishes long. The wine has medium acidity.
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Decanted, but it still didn't seem to open up as much as I recall the previous bottle doing. Still a decent, well-balanced Syrah, with dark pepper and gamey notes and moderate acidity.
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6/13/2022 - Winiac wrote: 94 Points
Well balanced, focused and concentrated. Solid structure.
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7/6/2018 - EducatedDrunk Likes this wine: 92 Points
After a 3 hour decant, began to open up, Still big structure, but nicely integrated tannin and great dark fruit character, cracked pepper on the nose. Better on day two. Will easily go another 5 years. Pretty delicious.
The wine looks inky colored. There is moderate sediment in the bottle. It smells like blackberry, garrigue, black pepper and tar. It tastes like mineral, black pepper and garrigue. The body is medium/full. The wine has smooth texture. The wine finishes long. The wine has medium acidity.
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5/29/2017 - jfolbe wrote: 94 Points
Fantastic with lamb cops.
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6/27/2015 - eudora Likes this wine: 93 Points
Unusual pairing with chicken marsala, but the mushrooms played well with the wine, which is drinking beautifully.
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3/28/2013 - stevenjstein Likes this wine: 91 Points
Decanted, but it still didn't seem to open up as much as I recall the previous bottle doing. Still a decent, well-balanced Syrah, with dark pepper and gamey notes and moderate acidity.
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