Deep carmine red, fading to mature garnet. What a nose! Expressive fruit, blackcurrants and prunes; backed with cedarwood, camphor and orange-flower-water. The first sip is cassis and coffee, then an acre of raspberries and red fruit. The wood comes next, sweet vanilla and disciplined oak from 24 months in French oak barrels; and the long finish dissolves into spice and coffee.
Exquisitely balanced; ripe fruit kept in check by the oak and tannins - softening after nine years, but still providing a framing structure for this beautifully composed wine.
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Deep ruby red in appearance. Layered nose with leather, dark berries, baking spices and a little greenery. Medium plus tannins (6.5/10) and a medium plus to full bodied. Lush palate with balanced acidity, dark currants, cherries, herbs and earth. Long finish. Drink till 2028.
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12/27/2023 - jac-aranda Likes this wine: 93 Points
Deep carmine red, fading to mature garnet. What a nose! Expressive fruit, blackcurrants and prunes; backed with cedarwood, camphor and orange-flower-water. The first sip is cassis and coffee, then an acre of raspberries and red fruit. The wood comes next, sweet vanilla and disciplined oak from 24 months in French oak barrels; and the long finish dissolves into spice and coffee.
Exquisitely balanced; ripe fruit kept in check by the oak and tannins - softening after nine years, but still providing a framing structure for this beautifully composed wine.
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9/7/2022 - LingonTuvan Likes this wine: 93 Points
Very good. Balanced. Spicy. In the window.
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5/30/2021 - Millennial Drinkers wrote: 93 Points
Deep ruby red in appearance. Layered nose with leather, dark berries, baking spices and a little greenery. Medium plus tannins (6.5/10) and a medium plus to full bodied. Lush palate with balanced acidity, dark currants, cherries, herbs and earth. Long finish. Drink till 2028.
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4/17/2021 - bowesmana Likes this wine: 93 Points
Inky, flavours of cream soda and vanilla. Delicious
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4/11/2020 - E94flu Likes this wine: 93 Points
Leather, graphite that comes together really nicely ina long smooth finish
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