Wine Reviews
This molasses-flavored beauty emphasizes its complexity, seeming elegant in the mid-palate, but remarkably concentrated in flavor. The most notable features here, though, are the smooth, unctuous texture and the complexity–the mature flavors, not only molasses, but a bit of seared caramel.
With its notes of flowers and wild herbs, this is markedly fresh for its age, while its fruit flavors have mellowed into a gentle richness of texture. It finishes with a touch of sweetness and a hint of minerality in the tannins, worthy of contemplation long into the evening, whether or not you share the wine’s birth year.
This draws you in, with aromas of warm halva and toasted pistachio giving way to a wide range of buckwheat, toasted sesame, walnut husk, menthol and licorice root notes that refuse to break down in the mouth. Exhibits remarkable length, with ample viscosity matched by steely tension, putting this in rarefied air.
