Candied cherry, purple flowers, kirsch and cola to the nose, sitting above peppery whole bunch and fresh earth. Full-on and relatively complex. The palate is on the fuller side, with a liqueur-like concentration, slightly rustic and a touch warming. There’s a pleasantly spicy kick to the finish, but this is a bit too concentrated and warm, and lacking in harmony, for my taste.
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Red cherry with some cherry hard candy notes, certainly spice with a dominating sense of whole cluster for now. Good enough weight, better length, subtle finesse. Not the most elegant or harmonious Cristom I’ve tasted, but perhaps too young?
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Heady cherry liqueur upon opening which mellowed to dark cherry and citrus. Integrating but still so fresh. Tastes like its 14% ABV - mid body plus plus with eagerness from the alc. Not mild. Great stuff.
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4/27/2024 - bear Likes this wine: 90 Points
Not really a mature wine yet. Still somewhat disjointed but it opened up a bit before we finished our chicken dinner. A big wine for an Oregon PN.
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8/17/2023 - Michigan Mostberg wrote: flawed
From magnum. Corked.
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5/25/2023 - Sun_Ship wrote: 90 Points
Candied cherry, purple flowers, kirsch and cola to the nose, sitting above peppery whole bunch and fresh earth. Full-on and relatively complex. The palate is on the fuller side, with a liqueur-like concentration, slightly rustic and a touch warming. There’s a pleasantly spicy kick to the finish, but this is a bit too concentrated and warm, and lacking in harmony, for my taste.
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11/19/2022 - Burgundy Al wrote: 90 Points
Red cherry with some cherry hard candy notes, certainly spice with a dominating sense of whole cluster for now. Good enough weight, better length, subtle finesse. Not the most elegant or harmonious Cristom I’ve tasted, but perhaps too young?
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11/9/2022 - Scamber Likes this wine:
Heady cherry liqueur upon opening which mellowed to dark cherry and citrus. Integrating but still so fresh. Tastes like its 14% ABV - mid body plus plus with eagerness from the alc. Not mild. Great stuff.
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