Buttered popcorn on the intitial nose, strange. NIce merlot fruit, very California in the Napa dusty refined drying tannins. Stewing veg's on the nose now... fruit tart dark merlot. Plums? Velvety rich, nice mid palate burst. Lingers. Drinking perfect. Not much upside.
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Still plenty of tannins, oak and dryness in this wine although the fruit didn't show as much as we would prefer. A bit more fruit came to the surface after decanting. Surprisingly, absolutely no sediment.
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8/22/2008 - tplskylrk wrote: 91 Points
Buttered popcorn on the intitial nose, strange. NIce merlot fruit, very California in the Napa dusty refined drying tannins. Stewing veg's on the nose now... fruit tart dark merlot. Plums? Velvety rich, nice mid palate burst. Lingers. Drinking perfect. Not much upside.
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9/21/2007 - idrinkvino wrote: 86 Points
Mild fine grained tannins and fruit. Seems to be a bit long in the tooth at this point.
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11/27/2006 - idrinkvino wrote: 89 Points
No sediment with this wine. Very refined, oaked, with burnt fruit. Mild yet long lasting flavours.
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10/25/2006 - idrinkvino wrote: 86 Points
Still plenty of tannins, oak and dryness in this wine although the fruit didn't show as much as we would prefer. A bit more fruit came to the surface after decanting. Surprisingly, absolutely no sediment.
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