April 4, 2024 - Opened and recorked and stuck back in cellar for 36 hours. Purple ruby with a faint water line at the rim. Taste is smooth on its own but clashed a bit with some overly sweet tomato sauce. Herbal on the finish. Really enjoyable, but perhaps not a pizza wine.
February 12, 2024 - Dark black fruit, cigar, strong spice and pyrazine. Well-structured texture with mid-acidity. Well made but a bit disappointing compared to 2018, as it loses fruity nose quite soon and gets strong alcohol taste. Moreover, that pyrazine doesn’t seemed to be well-controlled.
February 2, 2024 - Exceeds expectation. Notes later, from subsequent bottles.
September 17, 2023 - Elegant and fruity featuring blackberry, cigar box and plum. Nicely balanced reuniting fine grained tannins, medium acidity keeping in check the 14.3% abv. NI:4, FI:23, FC:8, B:4, L:4
August 27, 2023 - Lovely, with notes of black cherry, dark chocolate, and baking spice coalescing throughout. Polished tannins and the satiny mouthfeel linger on the medium-long finish.
August 2, 2023 - At restaurant. Almost Rutherford dust-like flavor. Spicy.
May 27, 2023 - Well made wine. Could benefit from another 2-3 years of aging.
May 19, 2023 - Not at all what I was expecting on the nose. I was expecting ripe new world fruit, what I got was a very subdued, deep, dark fruit. Black fruits, anise, plum, mocha, plum jam, peppermint keeps this fresh and cool. Very elegant, finish is long, sitting heavy on the sides of the palate. The finish is even longer than I first thought. There is a lot to take in, it is not giving anything away freely, you really have to get into the glass and dig around to pull everything out. The nose on this reminds me of a fine Bordeaux, makes me really excited to see how this ages out, and comes out of its shell.
May 18, 2023 - WS #30
May 14, 2023 - Very good