1998 Matthews Red Wine

Community Tasting Notes (13) Avg Score: 88.6 points

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  1/28/2024 - Brian Glas Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Tasted after 1 hour of air. Medium garnet color. Raisin fruit. Some licorice spice. Cassis and black cherry. Not surprising this is past its prime if you are into fruit forward wines. It is still holding together nicely for a 25+ year old Washington wine though. I recall really enjoying these 20 years ago. Still very good.
  
  Great job Matt Loso.

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  12/1/2016 - hiker_guy Likes this wine:

  Another beautiful bottle with lots of life left.
  Ready to go a few minutes after opening.
  Fruit still very evident with some secondary notes starting to show. Very nice place right now.
  Would buy again.

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  11/12/2015 - hiker_guy Likes this wine:

  cork crumbled at opening.
  some bricking but color is remarkably dark for its age.
  Nose shows reduction
  Palate is lovely sweet fruit, just starting to show leathery tannins and secondary flavors. Long finish.
  An absolute steal at auction for $10. Washington gets so little credit...

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  10/23/2011 - FLI Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Mostly about the fruit. Tannins were smoothed out and alcohol moderate. Soft cab franc and merlot evident, but still the cab dominates. Nice to have my last bottle from the case be a good one! Adios, amigos!

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  5/24/2011 - FLI Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Lots of fruit, nicely integrated tannins. This wine is drinking well right now.

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