Drink now. This is a bit past it’s prime, as is evident by the lack of finish, but it still presents well. Medium ruby with a tinge of tawny and medium+ intensity aromas of red cherries, strawberries, cranberries, chocolate, and cedar with hints of an herbaceous, minty quality. This wine is dry with medium body, high acidity, medium tannin, and medium alcohol. Medium+ intensity flavors of plum and chocolate are the most expressive on the palate. It has lost something on the finish, but still very enjoyable with chocolate and worked as a lighter-end option with beef tenderloin.
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A year since last bottle. Italian restaurant, poured into decanter. This bottle showed better than any of the others we've had. Cherries, red berries, tobacco and spices. Medium bodied and well balanced. Tannins mostly resolved in a good way. Earthy and fragrant, enjoyed by all.
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At restaurant so no decant. Poured and allowed to sit while dinner was prepared. Like previous bottles this was red fruits, red berries, spice, tobacco and some tomato leaf. Medium bodied, with fully resolved tannins this bottle showed well with pasta. Still time left for well stored bottles.
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4/16/2023 - Farlain24 Likes this wine: 95 Points
Very smooth. Has not lost anything over tge 20 years in the bottle
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12/21/2022 - csnash22 wrote: 90 Points
Drink now. This is a bit past it’s prime, as is evident by the lack of finish, but it still presents well. Medium ruby with a tinge of tawny and medium+ intensity aromas of red cherries, strawberries, cranberries, chocolate, and cedar with hints of an herbaceous, minty quality. This wine is dry with medium body, high acidity, medium tannin, and medium alcohol. Medium+ intensity flavors of plum and chocolate are the most expressive on the palate. It has lost something on the finish, but still very enjoyable with chocolate and worked as a lighter-end option with beef tenderloin.
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8/8/2022 - Rick & Ilsa wrote: 92 Points
A year since last bottle. Italian restaurant, poured into decanter. This bottle showed better than any of the others we've had. Cherries, red berries, tobacco and spices. Medium bodied and well balanced. Tannins mostly resolved in a good way. Earthy and fragrant, enjoyed by all.
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3/30/2022 - csnash22 Likes this wine: 90 Points
Drink now; slightly past prime. Aromas of flavors of red fruits with a dry mouth feel and relatively subtle tannins.
Wonderful with dark chocolate.
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8/28/2021 - Rick & Ilsa wrote: 91 Points
At restaurant so no decant. Poured and allowed to sit while dinner was prepared. Like previous bottles this was red fruits, red berries, spice, tobacco and some tomato leaf. Medium bodied, with fully resolved tannins this bottle showed well with pasta. Still time left for well stored bottles.
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