Tasted this at the winery 4/2018, was surprised how well it drank and youthful it still is. Part of a 3 year vertical, wine of the group.
Cork crumbled on opening, my fault. I wasn’t respectful of its age. A tinge of brown, but still dark, youthful and hate to use the term, full of energy. Needs a half hour or more to fully open. And 4 hours later started to run out of energy.
Blackberry, cassis, cherry, rich dark and a sweet, long smooth finish. Glad I bought them all.
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Felt this was better a couple years ago. Drank over two night with night one being preferable. Mocha, some berry jam and that's about it. I've another and will look to have soon. Had the '96 a month or so ago and it was fab.
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9/7/2018 - kinkevi wrote: flawed
Cork was wet up to top and immediately disintegrated. I filtered and the wine is way past drinkable.
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4/23/2018 - afu wrote: 91 Points
Tasted this at the winery 4/2018, was surprised how well it drank and youthful it still is. Part of a 3 year vertical, wine of the group.
Cork crumbled on opening, my fault. I wasn’t respectful of its age. A tinge of brown, but still dark, youthful and hate to use the term, full of energy. Needs a half hour or more to fully open. And 4 hours later started to run out of energy.
Blackberry, cassis, cherry, rich dark and a sweet, long smooth finish. Glad I bought them all.
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9/2/2012 - Winepartnersb wrote: 84 Points
Better then soy sauce for sure
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7/1/2012 - ThatReeder wrote: 91 Points
This was pretty good. Past it's best, but a nice floral nose and a slight smoke on the finish.
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5/20/2011 - ThatReeder wrote: 82 Points
Felt this was better a couple years ago. Drank over two night with night one being preferable. Mocha, some berry jam and that's about it. I've another and will look to have soon. Had the '96 a month or so ago and it was fab.
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