Dense, opaque, with purplish ruby edges. Smells like black and blue fruits, graphite, walnuts, and dark chocolate. Medium body, acid, and finish, with flavors of cassis, graphite minerality, black olive, lemon, and a little floral lift. Pretty good. Had with a homemade beef ramen and it worked well. Doesn't seem to have a lot of stuffing, but still interested to see it with a little more age.
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PnP. Deep, dark black plum nose with violets. Attack delivers a massive wall of black fruit with a dense texture and medium minus acidity, but the palate failed to develop complexity. It rolls into fat tannins, iodine, and black olive that fades away over 20 seconds.
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PnP. Nose with lots of smoked meat, raw meat, purple fruit, and violet floral aromas. Focused, supple palate delivers black raspberry and smoked meat in a concentrated, short-lived beam. Chalky tannins take over adding tacky blackberry, earth, and mineral notes over a brooding, peppery acidity. Interesting wine.
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8/8/2023 - studleytrey Likes this wine: 90 Points
Dense, opaque, with purplish ruby edges. Smells like black and blue fruits, graphite, walnuts, and dark chocolate. Medium body, acid, and finish, with flavors of cassis, graphite minerality, black olive, lemon, and a little floral lift. Pretty good. Had with a homemade beef ramen and it worked well. Doesn't seem to have a lot of stuffing, but still interested to see it with a little more age.
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6/19/2023 - VAGenius Likes this wine: 90 Points
PnP. Deep, dark black plum nose with violets. Attack delivers a massive wall of black fruit with a dense texture and medium minus acidity, but the palate failed to develop complexity. It rolls into fat tannins, iodine, and black olive that fades away over 20 seconds.
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2/2/2023 - seijaro Likes this wine: 92 Points
We liked it a lot but it was not as big as the '13 and not as smooth as the '12. Great fun to drink three vintages in a row :)
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11/22/2022 - VAGenius Likes this wine: 92 Points
PnP. Nose with lots of smoked meat, raw meat, purple fruit, and violet floral aromas. Focused, supple palate delivers black raspberry and smoked meat in a concentrated, short-lived beam. Chalky tannins take over adding tacky blackberry, earth, and mineral notes over a brooding, peppery acidity. Interesting wine.
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10/8/2022 - wiscgrad wrote: 94 Points
Dark black fruit and plenty of black pepper. Smooth tannins. viognier adds some nice aromatics. Quite fresh on the palette.
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