Cork was intact when opened with a sophisticated tool that combines a Teflon screw with the two cradling tongs extractor. Decanted a few minutes before service. Huge bouquet of cedar. Velvety texture. Resolved tannins. Great red color with hardly any tile hint. Deep red. On the palate the wine was balanced with black fruit and cedar. Sophisticated. Would have thought it was a 20-year old classified Bordeaux.
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Amazingly youthful. Brief notes of attic dust dissapate after 15 mins. Packed with ripe strawberry. Predictable mature notes of iron. Resembles a 15 year old sangiovese. Acid streak. Great with food. 1+ hour decant advised.
Ifune in NYC (Frankie & Johnnie's Steakhouse, NYC): This displace some cinnamon and other spice notes, but the fruit was almost non-existent. This seemed brothy, stewed, lactic and had hint of volatile acidity. A flawed bottle.
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11/11/2023 - Wineteacher Likes this wine: 92 Points
Cork was intact when opened with a sophisticated tool that combines a Teflon screw with the two cradling tongs extractor. Decanted a few minutes before service. Huge bouquet of cedar. Velvety texture. Resolved tannins. Great red color with hardly any tile hint. Deep red. On the palate the wine was balanced with black fruit and cedar. Sophisticated. Would have thought it was a 20-year old classified Bordeaux.
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1/22/2017 - ledwards wrote: 93 Points
Amazingly youthful. Brief notes of attic dust dissapate after 15 mins. Packed with ripe strawberry. Predictable mature notes of iron. Resembles a 15 year old sangiovese. Acid streak. Great with food. 1+ hour decant advised.
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12/16/2015 - mdefreitas wrote: flawed
Ifune in NYC (Frankie & Johnnie's Steakhouse, NYC): This displace some cinnamon and other spice notes, but the fruit was almost non-existent. This seemed brothy, stewed, lactic and had hint of volatile acidity. A flawed bottle.
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3/16/2013 - Burgundy Al wrote: flawed
Another Saturday at Knightsbridge - mostly blind (Northbrook, IL): Tasted double blind. Stewy, off balance, hopefully a flawed bottle, but quite possibly just well past its peak.
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