Absolutely fell in love with this wine. Deep, dark, broad, layered, I could see myself getting into trouble by drinking the whole damn bottle in a single setting!
COLOR: 5/5 - Deep, dark, inky red right out to the edges. Julia Robertsesque legs in the glass.
NOSE: 13/15 - Effusive nose of black currant, mint (think Wrigley's Winterfresh), vanilla, licorice, and old leather just swirl and frolic from the glass into the deepest corners of your brain.
FLAVOR: 9/10 - Take small sips. This wine explodes on your palate and muscles its way into every nook and cranny in your mouth. I get some of the minty licorice flavors as well, but this is where the fruit starts coming in with black currant and (maybe?) pomegranate.
FINISH: 8/10 - I'm not sure if it's a trick of the alcohol or if there's bit more residual sugar in this than a typical Petite Sirah, but there's an initial sweetness (relatively speaking) at the beginning of the finish. A waning candied raspberry evolves through a gradual puckering reprises of currant through the licorice mint and ends with a small-berry glow (currant, elderberry).
POTENTIAL: 4/5 - Petite Sirahs are the Sean Connerys of the wine world -- the only improve with age and this clearly has the quality and stamina to last 20+ years in a good cellar.
OVERALL: 4/5 - Why not 5/5? It's not perfect! The sweet caught me off guard and I'm still not sure what to do with it. In the 2 hours I've had it open it's started to fall apart a little bit on the mid palate and pick up a tannic edge. If you open this with two other people and pop & pour I guarantee you the bottle will disappear long before it starts to slide... and even now it's a DYNAMITE glass of wine.
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Thanks for your tasting note Corrado, helped me think through the wine.
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