2011 Tikveš Vranec Special Selection

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  8/18/2022 - forceberry wrote: 90 Points

  Macerated for 10 days with the skins. Aged for 12 months, partially in stainless steel, partially in old oak vats. 14% alcohol, 6 g/l acidity.
  
  Dense, quite opaque and very dark blackish-red color with a slightly evolved maroon hue. The nose feels very reticent - almost completely mute - upon opening, but slowly opens up to slightly closed and somewhat tertiary aromas of game and meat stew, some ripe blackcurrants, a little bit of hoi sin, light inky tones, a hint of vague dark fruit and a tertiary touch of beef jerky. The wine is extracted, quite chewy and even somewhat tightly-knit on the palate with a full body and bold flavors of licorice and ripe dark forest fruit, some blackcurrant tones, a little bit of meat stew and meaty umami, light tertiary notes of hoi sin and beef jerky, a woody hint of oak spice and a subtly oxidative touch of soy sauce. The wine still comes across as very muscular and structured, all thanks to its high acidity and tons of tannins that aren't green or aggressive, just ridiculously ample, making the wine feel very tough and grippy. The finish is powerful, somewhat warm and very grippy with a long and intense aftertaste of wizened dark fruits and ripe blackcurrants, some raisiny tones, a little bit of oxidative soy sauce, light meaty notes of umami, a hint of licorice and a woody touch of savory oak spice.
  
  I've tasted the wine previously once, more than eight years ago. Back then it was very powerful, youthful and in dire need of cellaring - or at least that's what I thought. Well, with eight years of aging the wine has lost lots - but fortunately not all - of its youthful fruit, but the tannins have resolved very little and it seems the fruit will give in much sooner than the tannins. It seems the wine will always remain very tough and tannic and it just calls for to be paired something big and hearty; with aging you can't soften these tannins - or at least not while the wine still retains any youthful fruit. Nevertheless, the wine really hasn't lost any quality with age - although I wouldn't say it has improved much either. It has just developed laterally - it's just different and more evolved than how it was 8 years ago. Still, this was a superb purchase at just 10,24€.

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  4/16/2020 - PaulusLoZebra Likes this wine: 90 Points

  A remarkable wine and QPR. Decanted and served immediately. Still young! Vivid garnet edges with a deep, blood-red core. Relatively modest aromatic prifile, but a roaring flavor profile, with sweet red and blue fruits, prominent tannins, and a long bittersweet, mineral finish.

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  5/21/2018 - vandal16 wrote: 89 Points

  Good value. Not much of a nose, but surprisingly good

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  4/30/2018 - Lyubomir Lefterov wrote:

  Did not enjoyed it this time, could have been a bad bottle though. Burnt caramelized fruit is what I get mostly, couldnt finish a glass of it. Strangely enough the others enjoyed it and finished the bottle with no complaints.

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  5/6/2017 - Lyubomir Lefterov wrote: 90 Points

  Decanted and in half an hour it was all shining, seductive raspberry and all the red berry aromas one can think of, but in controlled manner with some very delicious fereshness, probably my best bottle so far.

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