Nicely fragrant nose of red flowers, pomegranate, spice, delicate red fruit, "Burgundy Pinot Noir" with a touch of heft as you would think from NSG.
On the palate, piercing bring red fruit acidity, providing a strong linearity throughout the palate, with a long, long lingering tart red acidic fruit finish.
Less giving on the palate than the nose, still really tight and acidic. I think with more aging the bottle will be less wound-up but I don't ever see this as being generous on the palate.
More of the hairshirt, monkish Burgundy to drink to sharpen your senses, rather than embrace and enrapture you.
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this wine is at the peak, and after an hour and a half showed amazing depth, complexity and richness without losing any balance. wish i had more in my cellar.
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my experience with this wine was much better than previous reviewers. it had a beautiful bouquet and the flavor was rich and deep. well-balanced with no over acidity or rough tannins. a real pleasure.
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Tuesday Night Double Blind $60+ (Bin 75): Dark dull crimson rim; funk, green, many called this canned asparagus, nice balance, deep tart red fruit; good density, full mid palate, firm tannin, sour red fruit, violets, a plushness to the tannin almost reminded me of N. Rhone; very good; pop and pour, should have let aerate longer to see if green subsided at all.
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11/25/2019 - TXRhoneRanger wrote: 50 Points
All canned asperagus. Can't get past that note. Still heavy tannin. Out of balance. No fruit at all. Disappointed. 🤷♂️
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2/23/2018 - kkazaks Likes this wine: 88 Points
Nicely fragrant nose of red flowers, pomegranate, spice, delicate red fruit, "Burgundy Pinot Noir" with a touch of heft as you would think from NSG.
On the palate, piercing bring red fruit acidity, providing a strong linearity throughout the palate, with a long, long lingering tart red acidic fruit finish.
Less giving on the palate than the nose, still really tight and acidic. I think with more aging the bottle will be less wound-up but I don't ever see this as being generous on the palate.
More of the hairshirt, monkish Burgundy to drink to sharpen your senses, rather than embrace and enrapture you.
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9/22/2016 - thwacker Likes this wine: 93 Points
this wine is at the peak, and after an hour and a half showed amazing depth, complexity and richness without losing any balance. wish i had more in my cellar.
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7/23/2016 - thwacker Likes this wine: 92 Points
my experience with this wine was much better than previous reviewers. it had a beautiful bouquet and the flavor was rich and deep. well-balanced with no over acidity or rough tannins. a real pleasure.
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6/30/2015 - Rezy13 Likes this wine:
Tuesday Night Double Blind $60+ (Bin 75): Dark dull crimson rim; funk, green, many called this canned asparagus, nice balance, deep tart red fruit; good density, full mid palate, firm tannin, sour red fruit, violets, a plushness to the tannin almost reminded me of N. Rhone; very good; pop and pour, should have let aerate longer to see if green subsided at all.
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