Super Bowl LVIII 2024 (Alpharetta, GA): Cellar Diving: Full disclosure... palate fatigue was in full effect at this point in the night. YUM! Of all the cellar diving wines we had, I enjoyed this the most. Maybe it is because it helped mix it up from a stylistic perspective. Nevertheless, this has a wonderful old world nose despite the slightly new world finish.
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This is one of those wines whose middling reviews suggest to me that either I didn’t get the memo to keep prices low, or that I am the luckiest buyer alive, and must stumble into bottles of uncommonly smooth provenance (or are better tasting simply by divine providence)..
Very pretty and Deep purple with a 2-3mm violet Miniscus. No bricking; perhaps 1tbsp of (unusually sweet) medium fine sediment.
Blueberries, warm plums, black currants, vanillin and some spruce on the nose.
Delicious out of the bottle, but improved gently for 16 hours, she has a full palate ripe black currants, blueberry pie, stewed plums, pine duff -and toasted oak. Legs are longer than a wine glass, and her finish of blue & black fruits and sugar pine sails on for forty seconds.
Superb. Impossible not to like.
(I avoided Diamond Creek because I found the vineyard designations hokey, and the label and typeface un-tasteful. Avoid my fate, for I am a Fool.)
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It had rounded out a bit but was still sort of average. The WS 83 was too harsh. I'd give it an 89. The wine looks brick colored. The legs are medium. There is heavy sediment in the bottle.
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2/11/2024 - Francophile1 Likes this wine:
Super Bowl LVIII 2024 (Alpharetta, GA): Cellar Diving: Full disclosure... palate fatigue was in full effect at this point in the night. YUM! Of all the cellar diving wines we had, I enjoyed this the most. Maybe it is because it helped mix it up from a stylistic perspective. Nevertheless, this has a wonderful old world nose despite the slightly new world finish.
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8/21/2020 - christ80 Likes this wine: 91 Points
Great fundamentals, finish is still needing more time in cellar
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12/22/2019 - MD Winery Likes this wine: 95 Points
Really deep berry.
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11/6/2017 - jdtonic Likes this wine: 94 Points
6am Day 2.
This is one of those wines whose middling reviews suggest to me that either I didn’t get the memo to keep prices low, or that I am the luckiest buyer alive, and must stumble into bottles of uncommonly smooth provenance (or are better tasting simply by divine providence)..
Very pretty and Deep purple with a 2-3mm violet Miniscus.
No bricking; perhaps 1tbsp of (unusually sweet) medium fine sediment.
Blueberries, warm plums, black currants, vanillin and some spruce on the nose.
Delicious out of the bottle, but improved gently for 16 hours, she has a full palate ripe black currants, blueberry pie, stewed plums, pine duff -and toasted oak. Legs are longer than a wine glass, and her finish of blue & black fruits and sugar pine
sails on for forty seconds.
Superb. Impossible not to like.
(I avoided Diamond Creek because I found the vineyard designations hokey, and the label and typeface un-tasteful. Avoid my fate, for I am a Fool.)
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3/17/2016 - Peterkraus60 wrote:
It had rounded out a bit but was still sort of average. The WS 83 was too harsh. I'd give it an 89.
The wine looks brick colored. The legs are medium. There is heavy sediment in the bottle.
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