Pop and pour. Fantastic aromatics: blackberry, spice, intense bramble, a touch of mulberry leaf, stems. On the palate: lovely acidity, wild strawberry, bitter herbs, mulberry, bramble. Drying tannin on the slightly bitter finish. On the downslope if this btl is representative, but still very good.
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Tasted over 2 hrs -nearly semi-translucent med dark red -bright red fruit and some sickly sweet VA notes -med- acidity, med/med- weight simple bright red fruit with some VA and medicinal notes, a bit of oak on finish along with some dried out med tannins -suspect this is an off bottle, seems pretty dead - not old and dead but soul-less
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Southeast facing Grand Cru. Fermented in vats and aged 18-20 months in oak.
A(ccuracy)=2: Med bright ruby. Round, broadly structured varietal. B(alance) =3: Distinctive components coming into harmony. C(omplexity)=2: Red berries, spices, subtle earth and mineral. D(epth) = 1: Even kilt start to finish. Average length, lingering finish.
Pop and pour. Showed more pure cocoa and raspberry at first, but with a little bit of time, this shows very differently: a touch of stems, cocoa, sour raspberry blended perfectly together. On the palate, a touch sharp with the acidity, but texturally this is wonderful...then it shows extremely austere as the acidity kicks into overdrive and the dusty tannin envelop your palate. This needs a lot more time...or it needs a food to compete with the astringency (even bacon didn't cut it).
Improved considerably with about 5 hrs open. Nose was beautiful and became pleasurable on the palate. We'll see how this is tomorrow.
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5/20/2023 - Aravind Asok wrote:
Pop and pour. Fantastic aromatics: blackberry, spice, intense bramble, a touch of mulberry leaf, stems. On the palate: lovely acidity, wild strawberry, bitter herbs, mulberry, bramble. Drying tannin on the slightly bitter finish. On the downslope if this btl is representative, but still very good.
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4/15/2022 - Cote d'Or wrote:
Tasted over 2 hrs
-nearly semi-translucent med dark red
-bright red fruit and some sickly sweet VA notes
-med- acidity, med/med- weight simple bright red fruit with some VA and medicinal notes, a bit of oak on finish along with some dried out med tannins
-suspect this is an off bottle, seems pretty dead - not old and dead but soul-less
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12/8/2017 - WineTally Likes this wine:
Southeast facing Grand Cru. Fermented in vats and aged 18-20 months in oak.
A(ccuracy)=2: Med bright ruby. Round, broadly structured varietal.
B(alance) =3: Distinctive components coming into harmony.
C(omplexity)=2: Red berries, spices, subtle earth and mineral.
D(epth) = 1: Even kilt start to finish. Average length, lingering finish.
Wine Tally Score [2,3,2,1]=8/10
Delicate robustness.
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8/11/2017 - Aravind Asok wrote:
Pop and pour. Showed more pure cocoa and raspberry at first, but with a little bit of time, this shows very differently: a touch of stems, cocoa, sour raspberry blended perfectly together. On the palate, a touch sharp with the acidity, but texturally this is wonderful...then it shows extremely austere as the acidity kicks into overdrive and the dusty tannin envelop your palate. This needs a lot more time...or it needs a food to compete with the astringency (even bacon didn't cut it).
Improved considerably with about 5 hrs open. Nose was beautiful and became pleasurable on the palate. We'll see how this is tomorrow.
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