Crock

CrockMedium bodied, soft, polished, earthy, and fully mature, the wine serves up its round, soft, spicy red berries, tobacco, thyme and coffee notes with ease. This is not a long distance runner, so if you have been waiting, you should be enjoying this now and over the next 5 years or so.

floral and earthy charms

It should develop nicely in bottle

And despite the succulent mid-palate

This is terrific and absolutely worth considering

this was from a magnum

it offers up a big

the Mouchère is even better

Coats the palate with sappy black and blue fruit preserve flavors complemented by suggestions of star anise

This a huge wine with incredible density and power where the abundant dry extract coats the palate and

citrus oil

a little tough in the middle

The finish is quite gassy and a bit hard to read but my projected range offers the benefit of the doubt that the underlying material