This is quintessential Plumpjack. It’s full raspberry and cassis on the nose, a hint of violet with a gentle creaminess.
The creaminess carries through on the palette, almost velvety. Tannins are perfectly integrated. It is rounded red fruit with tapioca, a long fruity finish with a late palette minerality. This wine is at it’s peak - you could wait, but my advice is: drink this now.
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Opaque rosewood color. Nose of plum skin, polished black shoe leather, embers, a recently-weeded garden bed, and the aroma of a freshly-opened cardboard box. There's a rounded mouthfeel with flavors of blackberry scone. This finishes with moderately grainy tannins. Pleasant drinking, but not knock-your-socks-off, which you'd expect at this price. Perhaps a symptom of a lesser vintage? Drink now, and for the next 5 years.
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Vertical 2006 to 2015 tasting. 2006 color is a deep ruby. Black current and mild raisin on the nose. Current and blackberry on the from pallet, that evolves through some vanilla and slight herbaceousness into a back pallet of cranberry and eventually Valencia orange. Long finish. Silky mouth feel, with tannins perfectly integrated. Drink now. - Posted from Corkz
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12/31/2022 - Tjmayne wrote: 100 Points
This is quintessential Plumpjack. It’s full raspberry and cassis on the nose, a hint of violet with a gentle creaminess.
The creaminess carries through on the palette, almost velvety. Tannins are perfectly integrated. It is rounded red fruit with tapioca, a long fruity finish with a late palette minerality. This wine is at it’s peak - you could wait, but my advice is: drink this now.
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3/28/2020 - mdipietro Likes this wine: 93 Points
Still fantastic
Still holding up extremely well
Wish I would have waited a couple years longer...
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11/23/2018 - NineteenEightyTwo Likes this wine: 90 Points
Opaque rosewood color. Nose of plum skin, polished black shoe leather, embers, a recently-weeded garden bed, and the aroma of a freshly-opened cardboard box. There's a rounded mouthfeel with flavors of blackberry scone. This finishes with moderately grainy tannins. Pleasant drinking, but not knock-your-socks-off, which you'd expect at this price. Perhaps a symptom of a lesser vintage? Drink now, and for the next 5 years.
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2/14/2018 - Winedad53 wrote: 92 Points
Deep and dairy ruby in color. Plummy jam and current with notes of tar, licorice, anise.
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12/31/2017 - Tjmayne wrote: 92 Points
Vertical 2006 to 2015 tasting. 2006 color is a deep ruby. Black current and mild raisin on the nose. Current and blackberry on the from pallet, that evolves through some vanilla and slight herbaceousness into a back pallet of cranberry and eventually Valencia orange. Long finish. Silky mouth feel, with tannins perfectly integrated. Drink now. - Posted from Corkz
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