Dark ruby color. Nose fairly heavy in vanilla oak. with tart blackberry. Entry is tart blackberry and red currant. Decent weight with quite a long, strong spicy, herbal finish. A toasty oak present throughout. Tannins remain a bit drying but only coming late. This still has years left. Well done. Built to last and seems to progress well.
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Needed time in the glass for the nose to open. A leathery oaked nose with currant. Entry is sour with a finish remaining quite hot and tannic. Loads of pepper and spice - long. This needs more time.
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It smells like blackberry, prune, oak, carnation, raisin, plum, game, red currant, alcohol/hot and cherry. The wine looks inky colored. The legs are slow. There is moderate sediment in the bottle.
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9/12/2020 - riskun Likes this wine: 93 Points
Dark ruby color. Nose fairly heavy in vanilla oak. with tart blackberry. Entry is tart blackberry and red currant. Decent weight with quite a long, strong spicy, herbal finish. A toasty oak present throughout. Tannins remain a bit drying but only coming late. This still has years left. Well done. Built to last and seems to progress well.
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12/19/2016 - riskun wrote: 89 Points
Needed time in the glass for the nose to open. A leathery oaked nose with currant. Entry is sour with a finish remaining quite hot and tannic. Loads of pepper and spice - long. This needs more time.
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1/9/2015 - Triton03 wrote: 95 Points
It smells like blackberry, prune, oak, carnation, raisin, plum, game, red currant, alcohol/hot and cherry. The wine looks inky colored. The legs are slow. There is moderate sediment in the bottle.
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