Winery - Ritchie Creek
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Right off the bat, you notice the softness of the tannins. The wine floats like melted butter in the mouth, creating a nice vehicle for the pleasant blackberry flavors to coat the palate. Decent acidity and absolutely no residual sugar provide structure. This is a candy of a wine, but could use more depth.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Simple, ripe flavors of peaches and apples have the sweetness of fruit juice, and the acidity is low, making for a soft, cloying wine. There’s a rough, common feel to the tannins.
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* Expert NoteDecember 19, 2005
Old nose, touch of mead, butterscotch, fresh herbs and acidity dominate the aromas; sweet and nutty in the mouth with an old Burgundy flavor; greatly benefits from tine in the glass which brings out fresh lemony flavors that balance the wine; very lemony and citric finish with a sharply focused center core of acidity; good structure, but clearly past its optimum time. (NR)
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* Expert NoteDecember 19, 2005
Odd nose, loaded with green herbs, beetroot, talcum powder and various spices; the wine is unbalanced but still has some sweet fruit in its inner core; the dominant flavor is blackberry and black currant, but the wine is quite thin and a bit dry, and the sweetness is marred by a green, grassy set of flavors; this wine may be dying and past its useful life. (14/20)
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* Expert NoteDecember 19, 2005
Grassy nose, lots of green olives, spicy, lots of black fruit, intense; sweet and powerful with huge fruit flavors, very concentrated and powerful flavors; black and opaque in the mouth exhibiting the kind of concentration and focus reserved more commonly for the cults; long finish with an almost meaty character at the finish. (19/20)
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* Expert NoteDecember 19, 2005
Very ripe and rich nose, sweet aromas, black currant jam, chocolate, nice smattering of green herbs on the nose, rich and eloquent; big fruit flavors on the palate; black cherries, touch of cranberry dryness in the mouth, balanced tannins; very long and elegant finish with sweet ripe fruit, truffles, mature tannins; a poised wine with real character. (18.5/20)
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* Expert NoteDecember 19, 2005
A strong herbal nose with lots of green spices, touch of iodine and a bit medicinal, at the same time quite perfumed; earthy and sweet in the mouth, lots of black fruit mixed with heavy coarse tannins; earthy with lots of truffle flavors at the finish; not a particularly compelling wine, but decent for the vintage. (15.5/20)
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