Brad Jensen

9.4

Revisiting this on the day we create our first family business, tasting wine from our honeymoon. Couldn’t tell that this wine is 7 years old, with a heavily perfumed nose of artificial carpet, blood orange, and velvet, with hints of pepper and lush dark red fruits to the edges. Color gives away no age either, with a deep rose color and medium body. The tannins remain largely intact on the palate, still grabbing the tip of the tongue, but there’s just a hint of age showing at the periphery, with some butterscotch and caramel notes starting to show integrated well with the loooong blackberry and black plum compote dominating the primary palate, with greater pepper, vanilla, a little coca and earthy notes incorporated within. This ages well, no question. — 11 days ago

Brad Jensen

8.6

Best description I saw for this was a wine on the border between rose and rouge. The nose is full of deep ripe red fruit. Plum primarily, with a hint of pepper and rind. Light bodied but really dry, with lean acidity, mouth drying tightness, easy fruit on the front, with some rose and more blood orange than plum from the front. The finish is almost like tart cherry but even drier, with mineral and some serious astringency coming from the Blank. Not tannin but damn close. Interesting but won’t be another buy for me dawg. — 20 days ago

Brad Jensen

8.8

Very dry with a wild nose, funky, natural and pet nat, with that kind of musky, armpit like funk dissipating quickly over the notes of lemon, Buddha hand, orange rind and wet stone. This is DRY, surprisingly so, and on its own has a lot of great energy, with the funk continuing at the beginning of the palate, but the dryness can be somewhat stark. Paired with some cheese and tinned fish though it really comes into its own. — a month ago

Brad Jensen

9.4

Deep color, with pale orange hues to the edges of a deep rose colored core. Medium bodied, but with quick little running legs, this jumps out of the glass with a beautifully perfumed floral nose of light violet, rose, and deep red, plush textured fruit. Plum, black cherry, I want to say bergamot (but I’m probably using that wrong), with hints of cedar mulch, ripe fig and garrigue. The palate is medium, dry, and lightly, sandy tannic. It has LOTS of energy and emerging flavors and freshness that lasts long after the sip is finished. — 12 days ago

Brad Jensen

9.0

Brad had this 19 days ago

Brad Jensen

9.1

Amber to copper color, almost port or brandy like, but still with some deep pale rose coloration to the center. The nose is deep and expressive, perfumed, with vanilla, candied raspberry, pepper, black cherry, some hibiscus and some citrus notes throughout. On the palate the tannin is present and emerges further with time and air, with still good energy but the age is showing with brandy like notes. The rest of the palate is medium bodied, with soft dark fruit, spice and pepper prominently present with a looong finish with herbs, charcoal, charred leeks and dried tart cherry to the finish. — a month ago

Brad Jensen

9.3

Brad had this 12 days ago

Brad Jensen

8.8

Brad had this 18 days ago

Brad Jensen

9.5

Goodness this is a beautiful wine. Perfectly paired with roast duck leg with blackberry reduction, this wine does NOT act 28 years old. The nose jumps out of the glass with dark chocolate, blackberry, black plum, spice and crushed velvet and blueberries. The color shows its hand with a little bricking to the edges, but still has a deep pale maroon color that shows she’s got plenty of life left in her. The tannin haven’t lost much of their grip, though much more dry and silty than grippy. The palate is medium bodied, but light on its feet, with less leftover fruit from the age, but still plenty of acidity, with blackberry preserves, leather, plum, balsamic, tar, and beef teriyaki jerkey, with some green peppercorn and a hint of iron on the finish that leaves a looong and fresh impression. — a month ago

Brad Jensen

9.3

Paired with a prodigious big pork chop. At 10 years old, the odor of aged, wet artificial carpet exists alongside prominent amber notes, and hints of mashed blackberry, plum, ground black pepper and thyme notes. Medium bodied, with still a LOT of energy, but showing its age. Lite if plum, dark cherry, bitter chocolate, mulch, graphite, brandy, and blood orange with some baking spice and some well integrated tannin throughout. — a month ago