{cork, 12.5%} Spotless cork. Aged nose; spice, tobacco, cherry plum, chocolate. Nicely franc-like. Although, maybe a touch musty and mushroomy? The palate is driven by acid rather than tannin, which is very low-key and transitory. Instead, although not actually volatile, there's a distinct prickliness to the texture here, along with gentle red fruit flavours and a spicy, exotic note. It's no more than medium-bodied, and has a short/medium, slightly hollow finish. Auction 'provenance', so indifferent storage may be a factor here. Ok, but further cellaring unnecessary on this tasting.
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Great nose - not as animally as the last, but there's a touch of funk/wild slightly rotting vegetation; great acidity, freshness, lightness, crunchy red fruit, gentle very slightly gritty tannins. Actually really enjoying this (S). Deep yet fresh.
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total funk nose of sewer/rotting vegetation but it blew off with time to reveal full on elderberry fruit (darkish, stemmy, and most of all pennyroyal in character); light, nice front-mid palate but it's low on flav int amnd a bit thin, short on th
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6/16/2017 - graemeg wrote:
{cork, 12.5%} Spotless cork. Aged nose; spice, tobacco, cherry plum, chocolate. Nicely franc-like. Although, maybe a touch musty and mushroomy? The palate is driven by acid rather than tannin, which is very low-key and transitory. Instead, although not actually volatile, there's a distinct prickliness to the texture here, along with gentle red fruit flavours and a spicy, exotic note. It's no more than medium-bodied, and has a short/medium, slightly hollow finish. Auction 'provenance', so indifferent storage may be a factor here. Ok, but further cellaring unnecessary on this tasting.
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4/6/2015 - Bearbus wrote:
Delivers a pleasantly herbacous red berried nose (unfortunately not funky) and a juicy medium bodied palate with some decent grip. Very nice
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3/12/2015 - Bearbus wrote:
Great nose - not as animally as the last, but there's a touch of funk/wild slightly rotting vegetation; great acidity, freshness, lightness, crunchy red fruit, gentle very slightly gritty tannins. Actually really enjoying this (S). Deep yet fresh.
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6/18/2014 - Bearbus wrote:
total funk nose of sewer/rotting vegetation but it blew off with time to reveal full on elderberry fruit (darkish, stemmy, and most of all pennyroyal in character); light, nice front-mid palate but it's low on flav int amnd a bit thin, short on th
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12/18/2013 - Yagil wrote: 86 Points
Loire wines: Cabernet Franc tasting (Wine-Bar, Nahalat Binyamin, TLV): color: very dark
nose: dill and anise notes.
palate: med bodied, lean, short sense of fruits followed by thin herbal finish.
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