Last bottle of this. Started off with a sharply dusty/earthy nose, but after some time in the decanter gave way to allspice and dried red fruit. Fully mature now, but still taut and firm, with supple tannin and sweet, smoky fruit. Lovely, and got better and better over the evening until as often happens, the last sip was the best.
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This was a stunner. Cork was soaked, almost crumbled on opening, but ullage was just fine. Really rich dark cherry and spice on the nose. More rich fruit with licorice, characteristic wet brick, and black cherry on the palate. Kept developing exotic spices throughout. Perfect with smoked pork shoulder.
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Nice very dark strawberry color to match its red fruit notes. Vibrant acidity and minerals, and perhaps a tad too much of that. A mouth filling and drying wine with sweet notes and a little Oak. It took over 30 minutes to fully come around.
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2/11/2017 - robmatic wrote: 91 Points
Last bottle of this. Started off with a sharply dusty/earthy nose, but after some time in the decanter gave way to allspice and dried red fruit. Fully mature now, but still taut and firm, with supple tannin and sweet, smoky fruit. Lovely, and got better and better over the evening until as often happens, the last sip was the best.
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4/7/2016 - Lype wrote: flawed
Too bad.
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5/10/2015 - bramwessel wrote:
This was a stunner. Cork was soaked, almost crumbled on opening, but ullage was just fine. Really rich dark cherry and spice on the nose. More rich fruit with licorice, characteristic wet brick, and black cherry on the palate. Kept developing exotic spices throughout. Perfect with smoked pork shoulder.
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2/26/2014 - mxpbuy Likes this wine: 90 Points
Nice very dark strawberry color to match its red fruit notes. Vibrant acidity and minerals, and perhaps a tad too much of that. A mouth filling and drying wine with sweet notes and a little Oak. It took over 30 minutes to fully come around.
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5/27/2012 - robmatic wrote:
Terminally funky bottle.
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