Dusty cherry, smoke, licorice, and garrigue. M+ acidity, a decade worth of tannins layer smoothly through the long finish. Mineral, red fruit, saucisson, and summer herbs. Outstanding.
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Birthday year for Phinny, typical reductive funk, took a full 3 hours to open up. Lighter style than 17/18, red fruited, precise, aciditic structure comon to 19s. Beautiful spice notes and silky, light tannins. Hold.
Drinking this after a summer of 21s, vintages couldn't be further apart, 19s will age on acid, 21s on dry extract/tannin, both will be lovely.
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Second bottle, decanted and drank over 4 hours. Funk blew off with air, but palate still feels reticent and withdrawn. I think 19s are shutting down, give remaining bottles more time.
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1/13/2024 - grizzlywine Likes this wine: 94 Points
Dusty cherry, smoke, licorice, and garrigue. M+ acidity, a decade worth of tannins layer smoothly through the long finish. Mineral, red fruit, saucisson, and summer herbs. Outstanding.
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9/15/2023 - darkfeld Likes this wine:
Excellent
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9/5/2023 - beef1020 wrote:
Birthday year for Phinny, typical reductive funk, took a full 3 hours to open up. Lighter style than 17/18, red fruited, precise, aciditic structure comon to 19s. Beautiful spice notes and silky, light tannins. Hold.
Drinking this after a summer of 21s, vintages couldn't be further apart, 19s will age on acid, 21s on dry extract/tannin, both will be lovely.
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9/2/2023 - jnewman77 Likes this wine:
This is very good; floral, cherry, raspberry, spice; classic Eyrie and delicious; good depth and lovely length; very good value
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6/13/2023 - beef1020 wrote: 94 Points
Second bottle, decanted and drank over 4 hours. Funk blew off with air, but palate still feels reticent and withdrawn. I think 19s are shutting down, give remaining bottles more time.
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