Garnet color with a bouquet and flavor of black cassis with a very pure impression, although not quite as good as the last bottle, drunk a year earlier and in the same location, the fabulous Blue Mountain Beach with its sugar white sands. The mountain is a sand dune and the bluebells have long gone. The wine had excellent balance and depth with a long wonderful finish. I no longer buy this wine as its price no longer makes sense and goes against Aristotle's admonition for a good life: moderation in all things.
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First dinner of 2019! (Galletto Ristorante, Modesto Ca.): Slow oxed for 10 hrs, some concerns as the fruit seemed of roasted red berry, with searing acidity and intense spice? Splash decanted off the chunks of sediment and took to dinner...it opened up brilliantly! The red berry fruit darkened and softened...pure finesse and femininity...pretty bouquet of flowers and spices...silky smooth tannins, yet with well integrated cedar and dusty white pepper oak barrel...red licorice, cherry cordials...just lovely layers of depth and purity. A true joy to drink!
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2/28/2024 - G_H wrote: 96 Points
Three decades of Screaming Eagle: Beautiful young fruit, super ripe cherries, vanilla, butterscotch, velvety and long. An underrated vintage.
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9/16/2020 - tcosgriff Likes this wine: 96 Points
Garnet color with a bouquet and flavor of black cassis with a very pure impression, although not quite as good as the last bottle, drunk a year earlier and in the same location, the fabulous Blue Mountain Beach with its sugar white sands. The mountain is a sand dune and the bluebells have long gone. The wine had excellent balance and depth with a long wonderful finish. I no longer buy this wine as its price no longer makes sense and goes against Aristotle's admonition for a good life: moderation in all things.
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1/5/2019 - Mrbuzz Likes this wine: 96 Points
First dinner of 2019! (Galletto Ristorante, Modesto Ca.): Slow oxed for 10 hrs, some concerns as the fruit seemed of roasted red berry, with searing acidity and intense spice? Splash decanted off the chunks of sediment and took to dinner...it opened up brilliantly! The red berry fruit darkened and softened...pure finesse and femininity...pretty bouquet of flowers and spices...silky smooth tannins, yet with well integrated cedar and dusty white pepper oak barrel...red licorice, cherry cordials...just lovely layers of depth and purity. A true joy to drink!
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7/10/2018 - MTCB Likes this wine:
It was was awesome.
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4/22/2018 - mnh wrote: 100 Points
Great elegance and balance. Lots of life ahead of it. Opened for Roy's 65th birthday. No regrets a wonderful sensual wine.
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