There's enough tertiary notes to make me think it's beyond its prime, but the tannins and acidicty make me think otherwise. Surprisingly it drink best an hour or two after opening. It's aged gracefully in magnum format.
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huge fruit bomb, highly extracted. gained even more weight and meatiness after opening for 3 hours. this has a fruit punch cocktail thing going on that makes it even more over the top than a kosta browne. just gobs and gobs of racy fruit here, plum raspberry and tart strawberry.
my guess is 03 was a hot vintage. let me look...
yep. from snooth: "A warm year produced higher alcohol and lower acid wines that were much more immediately appealing than those from 2002. These are somewhat flamboyant wines that are drinking at peak today."
i could see this going another 10 years easy. ive found cristom's pinots to be very ageworthy.
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After opening you could immediately smell tobacco and smoke on the nose that softened with time and by the end a hint of raspberry. The same quality on the palate. Very nice wine that has held up nicely in the cellar.
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Much improved from the previous bottle - probably at it's peak. Very attractive blue fruit on the nose, which carries through to darker fruits and plums on the palate. Well integrated tannins.
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Spicy cherry blackberry, blueberry, plum, vanilla and mineral w/ clove and cinnamon, very spicy in a good way, drank half of it before my blackened salmon arrived
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8/27/2022 - evjoh Likes this wine:
There's enough tertiary notes to make me think it's beyond its prime, but the tannins and acidicty make me think otherwise. Surprisingly it drink best an hour or two after opening. It's aged gracefully in magnum format.
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8/13/2014 - mike l. Likes this wine: 91 Points
from half bottle.
huge fruit bomb, highly extracted. gained even more weight and meatiness after opening for 3 hours. this has a fruit punch cocktail thing going on that makes it even more over the top than a kosta browne. just gobs and gobs of racy fruit here, plum raspberry and tart strawberry.
my guess is 03 was a hot vintage. let me look...
yep. from snooth: "A warm year produced higher alcohol and lower acid wines that were much more immediately appealing than those from 2002. These are somewhat flamboyant wines that are drinking at peak today."
i could see this going another 10 years easy. ive found cristom's pinots to be very ageworthy.
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8/29/2009 - TwistedArmadillo wrote: 92 Points
After opening you could immediately smell tobacco and smoke on the nose that softened with time and by the end a hint of raspberry. The same quality on the palate. Very nice wine that has held up nicely in the cellar.
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2/29/2008 - vancouvermatt wrote: 90 Points
Much improved from the previous bottle - probably at it's peak. Very attractive blue fruit on the nose, which carries through to darker fruits and plums on the palate. Well integrated tannins.
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10/10/2006 - billyb wrote: 90 Points
Spicy cherry blackberry, blueberry, plum, vanilla and mineral w/ clove and cinnamon, very spicy in a good way, drank half of it before my blackened salmon arrived
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