24012023 - Chor Sam drink over a rainy & cooling CNY. Definitely not ready on the palate. Pour: dirty deep ruby core with moderate legs. Nose: deeply seductive - dark fruit, ripe sweet cherry, layered with sundried tomatoes, rolled tobacco and ragged leather. >1hr: vanilla, sweet clove & fig. Palate: honestly rather disjointed. Grippy and rather linear throughout. Gonna revisit tomorrow
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Some short notes, didn't have time to score it. First sour cherry and grippy tannins but then it opened up with 3-4h of decant. Red cherry, blueberry, little earthiness with a great acidity making this wine very balanced. Tannins softened, it became very elegant and fine. Great wine for a reasonable price, needs 3 to 5 more years in my opinion. Looking forward to trying the 2015 as well.
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Very fresh, bright, and full of juice. Cherry tabacco, fine grained tannin, long sweet finish. The wine lacks intensity but makes up for it with elegance and a feminine beauty. Overpowered by our tomato sauce, but oh so good on its own.
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1/24/2023 - Romz wrote: 89 Points
24012023 - Chor Sam drink over a rainy & cooling CNY. Definitely not ready on the palate. Pour: dirty deep ruby core with moderate legs. Nose: deeply seductive - dark fruit, ripe sweet cherry, layered with sundried tomatoes, rolled tobacco and ragged leather. >1hr: vanilla, sweet clove & fig. Palate: honestly rather disjointed. Grippy and rather linear throughout. Gonna revisit tomorrow
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1/25/2022 - LeVin66 wrote: 91 Points
A pleasure to drink. A bit this but with nice acidity and a very refreshing quality.
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2/26/2021 - Château de Farmer wrote: flawed
Huge disappointment, totally stewed. Think there was heat damage. Leaving it open (half drunk) for 2-3 days to see if it levels out.
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12/12/2020 - VinceRime Likes this wine:
Some short notes, didn't have time to score it. First sour cherry and grippy tannins but then it opened up with 3-4h of decant. Red cherry, blueberry, little earthiness with a great acidity making this wine very balanced. Tannins softened, it became very elegant and fine. Great wine for a reasonable price, needs 3 to 5 more years in my opinion. Looking forward to trying the 2015 as well.
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10/28/2019 - brinko99 Likes this wine: 91 Points
Very fresh, bright, and full of juice. Cherry tabacco, fine grained tannin, long sweet finish. The wine lacks intensity but makes up for it with elegance and a feminine beauty. Overpowered by our tomato sauce, but oh so good on its own.
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