Crumbly cork but the wine is in good shape. Very saturated stuff with licorice, plum and cough medicine. Tons of oak! This stuff is over the top stylistically for me. Gave my other bottle away
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The second of 2 bottles purchased off winebid. Great stuff. Decanted almost 2 hours first time through. Showed black currant and a touch of oak up front with strong tannins gripping from back and moving forward up the palette. Retasted at 4hours open and was deep and intense of red flavors and still had gripping tannins. Towards end of glass was starting to close back up. I would bet this bottle has at least another 10yrs but i'd say hold for 3-5 for an amazingly balanced wine. Wished i had another 2 bottles.
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6/8/2014 - andtheodor wrote: 86 Points
Meh.
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5/3/2011 - bwillia wrote: 80 Points
Crumbly cork but the wine is in good shape. Very saturated stuff with licorice, plum and cough medicine. Tons of oak! This stuff is over the top stylistically for me. Gave my other bottle away
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4/17/2011 - mbeutel wrote: 92 Points
The second of 2 bottles purchased off winebid. Great stuff. Decanted almost 2 hours first time through. Showed black currant and a touch of oak up front with strong tannins gripping from back and moving forward up the palette. Retasted at 4hours open and was deep and intense of red flavors and still had gripping tannins. Towards end of glass was starting to close back up. I would bet this bottle has at least another 10yrs but i'd say hold for 3-5 for an amazingly balanced wine. Wished i had another 2 bottles.
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7/4/2008 - KMoon wrote: 90 Points
Very fruit forward - strong taste of cherries. It is tasting better each year!
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1/29/2008 - vordo wrote: 94 Points
a little tight on the first day but by day 2 excellent stuff.
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