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Upon opening … The cork comes out in fairly pristine condition, a little weak in the middle, but I had little problem putting it back in and pulling it back out. <\/p>\n
NOSE:<\/strong> Mostly dark and brooding – I can smell oak so I’m concerned I’ve either committed infanticide or there’s an over use of oak.<\/p>\n TASTE:<\/strong> There’s a lot going on here: black fruit and cedar, gritty and smoky with a tannin dryness that at times can overwhelm the tongue … Happily, there is some black raspberry on the lingering finish.<\/p>\n 2:00 hrs later …<\/strong> 24 hrs later …<\/strong> Bottom Line …<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Upon opening … The cork comes out in fairly pristine condition, a little weak in the middle, but I had little problem putting it back in and pulling it back out. NOSE: Mostly dark and brooding – I can smell oak so I’m concerned I’ve either committed infanticide or there’s an over use of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-im-drinking-tonight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Hardly moved at all. There’s quite a bit of oak on this wine and while the dark fruit aspect is there the oak packs a real punch. Will it come into its own and become a fully focused wine, or will this fall apart as an oak bomb? Time will tell and I give it …<\/p>\n
And it has smoothed out, the dark fruit has beaten the oak down into submission and it’s a beauty of a bottle of wine to drink.<\/p>\n
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