Completely impenetrable colour- sump oil, super thick and viscous, more like syrup than wine! The incredibly powerful and intense nose leaps out of the glass- treacle, alpine herbs, dates, burnt toffee, coffee, molasses, cough medicine! Gordon’s description “like the most vivid sunset during a bushfire” and I have to agree! Utterly overwhelming in a good way. Palate follows on- so intense and rich, but not cloying or overdone. I can literally taste this for minutes after swallowing. Just perfection and an incredible experience. What a wine to finish on. Rounding out the wines above was always going to be a mammoth task, but this wine has done it perfectly, and comfortably.
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Wow, this was dense and concentrated; lovely nose of date bread and spices; rich and thick with a syrup like texture on the palate; very sweet, but interesting and very enjoyable. You only need a tiny glass, but its tasty
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Sorghum and balsamic with a fascinating fresh, floral, herbal topnote. Instead of being dull and leaden like wines of this magnitude can be, there was a freshness here that's surprising.
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an amazing wine on an amazing night the creme brûlée went along so well so different was the 1963 port but almost it's equal other notes describing chocolate plums and figs are not incorrect not so sure about the cinnamon however
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7/19/2023 - aarone3333 wrote:
Completely impenetrable colour- sump oil, super thick and viscous, more like syrup than wine! The incredibly powerful and intense nose leaps out of the glass- treacle, alpine herbs, dates, burnt toffee, coffee, molasses, cough medicine! Gordon’s description “like the most vivid sunset during a bushfire” and I have to agree!
Utterly overwhelming in a good way. Palate follows on- so intense and rich, but not cloying or overdone. I can literally taste this for minutes after swallowing. Just perfection and an incredible experience. What a wine to finish on. Rounding out the wines above was always going to be a mammoth task, but this wine has done it perfectly, and comfortably.
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6/25/2023 - jnewman77 Likes this wine:
Wow, this was dense and concentrated; lovely nose of date bread and spices; rich and thick with a syrup like texture on the palate; very sweet, but interesting and very enjoyable. You only need a tiny glass, but its tasty
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6/24/2023 - janka Likes this wine: 97 Points
What more to say, perfect. So concentrated and tasteful. Unlike all other wine I drunk.
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4/10/2023 - andtheodor wrote: 93 Points
Sorghum and balsamic with a fascinating fresh, floral, herbal topnote. Instead of being dull and leaden like wines of this magnitude can be, there was a freshness here that's surprising.
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1/28/2023 - bugdoced Likes this wine: 97 Points
an amazing wine on an amazing night
the creme brûlée went along so well
so different was the 1963 port but almost it's equal
other notes describing chocolate plums and figs are not incorrect
not so sure about the cinnamon however
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