Price: $20 Decanted: No, poured into glasses for 45 minutes before getting serious though. Colour: Dark red - it's cabernet, it's 2 years old, no surprises here. Nose: Wet earth, tobacco Taste: Like a bucket of wet dirt, very muted fruit, green & vegetative & astringent. Finish: short & unmemorable, except for the bad taste.
Other: Only had half the bottle, next day same deal, just a different day!
Points: 67 QPR: F
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Posts: 1514 | Location: Boston MA | Registered: Mar 15, 2002
fk & jo - possible, but I had a couple of corked Perrin wines 2 weeks ago and I could tell right upon popping the cork, with this the odor wasn't fruity, but kind of like some Graves wines that I've had, especially a 1994 La Louviere. However with the Louviere, the fruit was right upon taste and there was no vegetative sense, and I've consistently ranked that wine 88-90 over the past 4 years. I've had a few 1998 California reds, and they've all shared some of the bad qualities described above.
I don't know if Central California had the same problems northern California had in 2000, and I've really enjoyed the 1999 Isocoeles, so I'm scratching my head on this one.
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