Real Wine with Real Food (Our House, White Plains): 4 hour decant with a second bottle into a large open top glass pitcher because we do not have a magnum decanter. Still primary but beginning to take on some back end secondary red fruit extra complexity to go with the Howell Mountain spice and the power of a Thomas Rivers Brown wine. The next bottle can wait five years and my guess is that additional flavors in hiding due to the power of what's there will come to the fore. Good pairing with marinated skirt steak as the seventh course of a tasting menu dinner party we created.
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The nose has oak, spice. Because it is still young for a large format, the tannins were big a nd beautiful. Spice, raspberry, cherry, oak. Balanced acidity. Although this could go years and years, it's showing well now. Nice long finish with no bitterness.
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7/1/2017 - J @ y H @ c k Likes this wine: 93 Points
Real Wine with Real Food (Our House, White Plains): 4 hour decant with a second bottle into a large open top glass pitcher because we do not have a magnum decanter. Still primary but beginning to take on some back end secondary red fruit extra complexity to go with the Howell Mountain spice and the power of a Thomas Rivers Brown wine. The next bottle can wait five years and my guess is that additional flavors in hiding due to the power of what's there will come to the fore. Good pairing with marinated skirt steak as the seventh course of a tasting menu dinner party we created.
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12/31/2016 - spidersva Likes this wine:
Part of the NYE 2016 carnage
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3/10/2016 - 1997cobalt Likes this wine: 90 Points
Not the show stopper I was anticipating. Not as full bodied as I have had with others from them
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8/8/2015 - cobalt2 Likes this wine: 95 Points
Totally awesome. Opened quickly. Was perfectly balanced, and tannins were firm but slightly muted. Just a pleasure
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5/24/2015 - DonWinspear Likes this wine: 91 Points
The nose has oak, spice. Because it is still young for a large format, the tannins were big a nd beautiful. Spice, raspberry, cherry, oak. Balanced acidity. Although this could go years and years, it's showing well now. Nice long finish with no bitterness.
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