This was excellent. At times super open and at times a bit shut down, but when open it was brilliantly mature and expressing a nice bit of fruit alongside plenty of savoury herbs, earth, and goodness.
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This is another great bottle of another great wine. The extra year-plus in bottle has only helped. And this is the generic county-level bottling. Excellent. It was followed by a 2015 Westwood legend, and this made that one taste like grape juice!
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Expressive blackberry and cola nose. Loads of red fruit and black cherries, spices, sweet tannins, and a long finish. Better - much better - than last time, and last time was pretty good.
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Weird cork, bottle might have been slightly off. Started out very closed but opened up to a relatively basic version of a Wellington Cab. Similar on day 2.
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Garnet color, nose of black raspberry sorbet, nice and strong; tastes of cassis, black cherry, raspberry, plums with light tannins. The only disappointment on an otherwise excellent cab sav was a rather brief aftertaste.
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1/31/2024 - klezman wrote:
This was excellent. At times super open and at times a bit shut down, but when open it was brilliantly mature and expressing a nice bit of fruit alongside plenty of savoury herbs, earth, and goodness.
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6/17/2021 - klezman wrote:
This is another great bottle of another great wine. The extra year-plus in bottle has only helped. And this is the generic county-level bottling. Excellent.
It was followed by a 2015 Westwood legend, and this made that one taste like grape juice!
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8/23/2020 - merryberry Likes this wine: 92 Points
Expressive blackberry and cola nose. Loads of red fruit and black cherries, spices, sweet tannins, and a long finish. Better - much better - than last time, and last time was pretty good.
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8/11/2019 - klezman wrote:
Weird cork, bottle might have been slightly off. Started out very closed but opened up to a relatively basic version of a Wellington Cab. Similar on day 2.
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1/19/2019 - nfurlong Likes this wine: 90 Points
Garnet color, nose of black raspberry sorbet, nice and strong; tastes of cassis, black cherry, raspberry, plums with light tannins. The only disappointment on an otherwise excellent cab sav was a rather brief aftertaste.
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