My last bottle. The fruit has faded in relation to prior bottles. Dried herbs, plum and sour cherry. Dry and austere. Even perfectly cellared at 53 degrees (and by the way the cork was perfect after 14 years), this wine is past its prime.
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I figured at this age it wouldn't get any better so it was time. Slow ox in bottle for a couple hours, dark, rich, still has life left. I got some creamy vanilla mid palate which I wasn't a fan of. Nothing wrong with it but not exciting either.
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a very big CA cab. lots of raspberry, blackberry to me; the end has a bit too much heat IMHO. more dark red than purple and medium+ body. this is solid but not amazing. not certain how this will age...my gut is its in a peak window now as the fruit is the best part of the wine and I dont see that getting better...
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Decanted for an hour and tried over two days. This was a tannic monster, but I found the fruit fading. The nose was closed but I picked up some dried herbs and plum.
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11/20/2021 - Vailman Likes this wine: 90 Points
My last bottle. The fruit has faded in relation to prior bottles. Dried herbs, plum and sour cherry. Dry and austere. Even perfectly cellared at 53 degrees (and by the way the cork was perfect after 14 years), this wine is past its prime.
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2/20/2021 - wchrisw Likes this wine: 88 Points
I figured at this age it wouldn't get any better so it was time. Slow ox in bottle for a couple hours, dark, rich, still has life left. I got some creamy vanilla mid palate which I wasn't a fan of. Nothing wrong with it but not exciting either.
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4/25/2020 - winelover1808 Likes this wine: 90 Points
a very big CA cab. lots of raspberry, blackberry to me; the end has a bit too much heat IMHO. more dark red than purple and medium+ body. this is solid but not amazing. not certain how this will age...my gut is its in a peak window now as the fruit is the best part of the wine and I dont see that getting better...
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8/19/2019 - Gr8penut Likes this wine: 92 Points
chewy and dark-wish i had more!
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7/7/2019 - tom_wine wrote: 89 Points
Decanted for an hour and tried over two days. This was a tannic monster, but I found the fruit fading. The nose was closed but I picked up some dried herbs and plum.
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