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86 points.

In the glass, this wine is a pure, medium red with a light viscosity. The aroma has very nice intensity with a great balance of red and black fruit with kitchen spice and earth tones. It’s actually kind of strange how diverse the nose is on this wine, at first I pick up on soft fruity tones like raspberries and almost a strawberry banana yogurt tone (fruit and a kind of tangy creaminess, probably from the American oak the wine is aged in), but then it moves on to cinnamon stick, dried fruit, and a very light burnt herb aroma. Very unique. At first sip, I pick up on some soft raspberry tones, and something that is distinctly menthol like (something that I would typically expect more in a Cabernet Sauvignon or a Cabernet Franc), then I get some kitchen spices and a faint herbal note. The acidity falls just a little flat on the mid palate and I notice the alcohol a bit more than I typically like to, but the wine is still pretty well balanced. It does have something about it that makes it feel a little disjointed, and I think that it may simply be that it’s five years old. Not all wine is meant to be aged, as a wine ages it can lose some of its fruitiness, and I would bet that this would have been awesome at three years of age. Overall, I really like this wine, I think it has a good complexity, depth, and uniqueness, and I would like to try another vintage to see how it drinks at a slightly younger age. If you’ve never had a Texas Merlot and you get the chance, I’d say this would be a good place to start.

Source: What's Worth Drinking: Post #7: Texas Merlot Taste-Off (http://whatsworthdrinking.com/2010/04/29/ )

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