Winery - Harlan
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* Expert NoteDecember 19, 2005
Huge nose with deep, brooding aromas, strongly aromatic with black fruits, black pepper, herbs, sweet earthen aromas that strongly suggest the terroir of this wine; sweet and intense in the mouth with powerful red and black fruit flavors; this is classic California big cabernet; big raw tannins give the wine an edgy feel in the mouth, like it is looking to explode; there is an exotic richness to this wine that makes it compelling; long, very sweet finish; perhaps more power than subtlety here, but there is no ignoring this wine. (19/20)
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* Expert NoteDecember 19, 2005
Rich and powerful aromas, intense and deep, dense, blackstrap molasses and tar, cassis and blackberry jam, soft and perfumed nose; first taste was wonderfully smooth and silky with loads of sweet black fruit; but in the middle of the mouth, the wine became crushingly tannic, which defined the wine for the balance; the promising beginning was obliterated with a saliva-sucking dryness at the end of the wine; more time may cure some of this as there is a lot of fruit in the body of the wine that should survive the tannins, but tough now. (17/20)
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