2014 Broc Cellars Nero d'Avola Foxhill Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (5) Median Score: 87 points

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  2/24/2018 - corka wrote: 87 Points

  Pretty harsh when you first pop this one, very angular with a hard bite, it needs a lot of time to open up and smooth out those sharp edges, starts to come around a bit but never fully. I'm a fan of broc wines and have had many, but I would not consider this one of his better bottlings...

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  1/30/2017 - Enfant sauvage Likes this wine:

  Consistent with previous, but slightly less exhilarating. There are a couple possibilities (in order from most likely to least):
  1. I built up my impression of the first bottle in my mind/my memory is faulty;
  2. This bottle was objectively slightly less good;
  3. I drank one of these on a fruit day and one on a cow horn full of poo day, or something like that.
  
  Still very yummy. Cherry and leather that sings Nero d'Avola to me, plus a bit of a spicy quality. Such good winemaking.

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  5/25/2016 - Silkeyj wrote: 88 Points

  Slightly cloudy, slightly hazy, purple to ruby. Thin fast tears but Nose of high alcohol, cherry, currant, candied fruit, some oak, pepper. Taste of strong cherry, pepper, currant, off dry, med - tannin, med acid, med - alcohol, pretty light. Slight sweetness. Easy drink now - will be interested to see how it ages.

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  5/12/2016 - Enfant sauvage Likes this wine:

  I can't decide whether this Nero or the Vinestarr Zin is my current favorite of the Broc lineup. Luckily, I have one more bottle of this to help me make up my mind. This has leather and cherries for days with none of the baked /stewed fruit and heaviness you get from most Neros.
  
  Here's what I love about the Broc lineup at the moment: If you were going to teach a beginning tasting class focused on the typical characteristics of classic varieties, you could do it using nothing but Broc. You might be missing Cabernet Sauvignon, but so be it. These wines are textbook examples of their varieties, approaching Platonic ideals in some cases. This screams Nero (ditto for the Broc CF and the Zin), but Broc takes the variety and shows it in its best, most flattering light.
  
  Social revolution, Nobel prizes, radioactive elements, Alice Waters, Dave Eggers, John Fogerty, Wes Montgomery, Broc Cellars - I love my hometown.

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  1/24/2016 - ECS93 Likes this wine:

  This one took a little while to open up. Minty-lavender on the nose, with juicy red fruits, full body, and high acidity. Very nice, and very Broc cellars.

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