1992 DeLille Cellars D2

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 92.5 points

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  5/20/2018 - JS1056 wrote:

  A friend found this bottle of the initial vintage and shared. D2 is one of my favorite wines and I think it is one of the best values in wine. It was a treat to see how the wine has evolved after 26years.
  Initially after opening, although the wine had blue fruit, it was pretty flat and quite frankly disappointing. Bit after about 20 minutes everything changed. The fruit came alive with silky tannins, milk chocolate and a hint of menthol. The finish was very long and expressive.
  I saved a bit to see how it would hold up and after about 2 hours it just fell apart. Never tasted bad, but lost all of the vibrancy that was there for an hour or two.
  The experience was very revealing. Even as a second wine, this proved that D2 can be long lived. But after drink multiple vintages over different age points, I think that the optimum window is probably 8 to 10 years is the right window, where the fruit is still fresh and dynamic but enough time to integrate all the elements.

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  8/2/2013 - Ron Slye wrote: 93 Points

  A surprise. After 21 years still going strong. Nose with notes of blue cheese/goat cheese, very ripe plums, and slight hint of cherry. As it warmed in the glass (started at cellar temp) the palate opened up into red fruit, violet, hints of mint, with a medium finish with hints of rubber and pencil lead. Still some nice tannins. This thing could last a number of more years…..

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  10/1/2011 - zovizule wrote:

  on opening - lively but a bit of VA. After about an hour - really filled in and smoothed out. Quite a lot of black cherry - a lot of fruit still for a `9 year old - seems like it is at plateau no side of fading. Really expressive nose and just a lot going on.

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  5/6/2006 - ricovino wrote: 92 Points

  turned into quite a bottle of wine

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