Interesting. Opened on sunday night and, frankly, pleasant but not great. Some fruit left, a bit tired. Pretty generic old-ish burg of middling quality. Drank half a bottle with the wife, vacuvin-ed it and left it in the fridge.
On monday night it had become a different beast altogether. Really beautiful. Beautiful secondary and tertiary notes. Red fruit-led, but with a whole set of more complex scents. Beautiful.
I guess the conclusion is that it needs plenty of air, which wouldn't have been obvious based on the first night's tasting. Very nice on night 2, pedestrian on night 1.
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Good, take notes with next bottles - significantly better than the 1995. Slow ox for about 4-5hrs which was about right. Quite a bit of fine sediment, needs quick double decant.
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Great wine. Drank from magnum at dinner, with duck. First glass was perfect, maybe even a higher score. Very primary fruit. Sour cherry, cranberry, a bit of citrus. Then beautiful length through myriad of secondary flavours. After some time open, it faded quite rapidly to a nice, balanced, elegant but less stunning beauty. Bought some more in bottle following this magnum, and its still great, but has lost some of the magic.
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fioler, granateplejuice og kirsebær - overraskende primær. Saftig, myk, leskende, fruktig i munnen også. Fantastisk lengde - sitter i 60+ sek. Dette var en magisk vin - perfekt match til bellota di iberico pluma og presa
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12/28/2014 - don_quichotte Likes this wine: 93 Points
Interesting. Opened on sunday night and, frankly, pleasant but not great. Some fruit left, a bit tired. Pretty generic old-ish burg of middling quality. Drank half a bottle with the wife, vacuvin-ed it and left it in the fridge.
On monday night it had become a different beast altogether. Really beautiful. Beautiful secondary and tertiary notes. Red fruit-led, but with a whole set of more complex scents. Beautiful.
I guess the conclusion is that it needs plenty of air, which wouldn't have been obvious based on the first night's tasting. Very nice on night 2, pedestrian on night 1.
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9/22/2013 - JulianSkeels wrote:
Good, take notes with next bottles - significantly better than the 1995. Slow ox for about 4-5hrs which was about right. Quite a bit of fine sediment, needs quick double decant.
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5/18/2013 - Mackmoo wrote: 82 Points
Way past peak.
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12/19/2012 - androvitch Likes this wine: 94 Points
Great wine. Drank from magnum at dinner, with duck. First glass was perfect, maybe even a higher score. Very primary fruit. Sour cherry, cranberry, a bit of citrus. Then beautiful length through myriad of secondary flavours. After some time open, it faded quite rapidly to a nice, balanced, elegant but less stunning beauty. Bought some more in bottle following this magnum, and its still great, but has lost some of the magic.
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11/18/2012 - stiang wrote: 94 Points
fioler, granateplejuice og kirsebær - overraskende primær. Saftig, myk, leskende, fruktig i munnen også. Fantastisk lengde - sitter i 60+ sek. Dette var en magisk vin - perfekt match til bellota di iberico pluma og presa
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