Lots of soft blackberry and blueberry fruit. Rich, and soft. Surprisingly there is not a lot of secondary flavors for a wine that is 11 years old. Easy drinking and probably past peak.
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Open these now and drink them. Best when first opened, showing berry, leafy/twiggy soil, camphor, and faint vanillin oak aromas. Sweet yet lithe, with a spicy edge to the flavors and fruit that really crystallizes on the finish. However, air brougth a relatively rapid evolution towards a hotter, rougher, more disjointed profile. Score based on best performance (immediately after uncorking).
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6/2/2010 - Outplaying wrote:
Lots of soft blackberry and blueberry fruit. Rich, and soft. Surprisingly there is not a lot of secondary flavors for a wine that is 11 years old. Easy drinking and probably past peak.
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5/26/2010 - Snyder wrote:
not good
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12/16/2008 - robw wrote: 86 Points
seem to have waited too long, the alcohol overpowers today.
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9/10/2007 - tcfishler wrote: 88 Points
Open these now and drink them. Best when first opened, showing berry, leafy/twiggy soil, camphor, and faint vanillin oak aromas. Sweet yet lithe, with a spicy edge to the flavors and fruit that really crystallizes on the finish. However, air brougth a relatively rapid evolution towards a hotter, rougher, more disjointed profile. Score based on best performance (immediately after uncorking).
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8/22/2005 - budman wrote: 91 Points
This zin has held up exceedingly well. Good dark fruits, and no signs of fading.
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