Fully developed, soft and refined, this elegantly styled charmer offers sweet, kirsch, licorice, flowers and earthy notes, but it could use a little more heft. There is no reason to delay popping a cork on this if you have a bottle in the cellar.
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Amazing! Wine is perfect. Fully developed. Fruits, aromas. Tannins fully melted. Wish I had more than two left in the cellar...Might improve for another couple years, but truly at peak now IMHO.
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How are the mighty fallen - quite good at first, with jammified wild strawberry flavours but then a taste of kirsch and a hot, syrupy finish which betrays the 14.5% alcohol
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Very expressive nose, with raspberry and wild strawberry very apparent, leading into a fresh, winsome mouthful of the same, very well-rounded and unctuous. Not a trace of oak, not over-cooked or overripe, with a lingering finish. Excellent, infinitely better than the 98. Probably good for another five years, well worth finding. The best since the 1990, by a long way.
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2/9/2019 - Jeff Leve wrote: 89 Points
Fully developed, soft and refined, this elegantly styled charmer offers sweet, kirsch, licorice, flowers and earthy notes, but it could use a little more heft. There is no reason to delay popping a cork on this if you have a bottle in the cellar.
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9/8/2018 - gbeaudry Likes this wine: 95 Points
Amazing! Wine is perfect. Fully developed. Fruits, aromas. Tannins fully melted. Wish I had more than two left in the cellar...Might improve for another couple years, but truly at peak now IMHO.
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5/20/2018 - Julian Marshall Does not like this wine: 82 Points
How are the mighty fallen - quite good at first, with jammified wild strawberry flavours but then a taste of kirsch and a hot, syrupy finish which betrays the 14.5% alcohol
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1/7/2017 - KenK Likes this wine: 91 Points
In a nice place and drinking well. Good sweet creamy red and black silky fruits.
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12/13/2015 - Julian Marshall Likes this wine: 93 Points
Very expressive nose, with raspberry and wild strawberry very apparent, leading into a fresh, winsome mouthful of the same, very well-rounded and unctuous. Not a trace of oak, not over-cooked or overripe, with a lingering finish. Excellent, infinitely better than the 98. Probably good for another five years, well worth finding. The best since the 1990, by a long way.
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