Rothko
Palm Beach
Wine Thief
Posts:2870
 | | 06/21/2004 2:17 PM |
| My two bottles of this are long gone.  | | | |
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love_cab_chard
Master of Wine
Posts:12485
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PourQue
Barrel Racker
Posts:1811
| | 06/21/2004 6:48 PM |
| | Thanks L_C_C! | | | |
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Pool Boy
Laurl, MD (DC suburb)
Master of Wine
Posts:13707
| | 07/23/2004 12:43 PM |
| Tasted 7/17/04 at the DC Crü event at The Caucus Room
Nice stems (some unknown germanic sounding name producer)
Just basic notes as we were having too much fun
Yes, yes, I know I said I wouldn't touch another for a year or two, but I went ahead and did it again anyway. The agony of having a small cellar I suppose.
Restrained, still but had great notes of caramelized licorice, dark fruits and brown sugar. Slight mustiness to it evolved as I kept some in the glass for a while, and this was probably after a good 90 minutes or more in the decanter. I’d wait some more to open another one of these. You’d think I’d learn to wait by now. <sigh> Still, this was a very good wine and, when it breaks out of its sleepy cocoon in a few years, it will be spectacular once more.
Presently still decent, better than the last time I had this, but it is a sleeping baby compared to its prior ranbunctious youthfulness. I won't touch it again for AT LEAST A YEAR. This time I mean it.
Presently worth 90 points, but it has a fine pedigree that will reward those who are patient.  | |
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juggernt
Tampa, FL, USA
Wine Bottler
Posts:3414
| | 07/23/2004 2:46 PM |
| | Again, I find myself agreeing with TJ. Perhaps I should have my head examined. | |
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ChangeMe
Master of Wine
Posts:12891
| | 07/24/2004 10:50 PM |
| | i have a 1/2 doazen left. when say you, should i open the next one? 2006? 2007? 2008? etc.... | | | |
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wineismylife
Arlington, TX
Master of Wine
Posts:12246
| | 07/24/2004 10:58 PM |
| | My first one goes in 2006, FWIW. | |
Joe
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ChangeMe
Master of Wine
Posts:11169
| | 07/24/2004 11:26 PM |
| | I have six and haven't opened one yet. | | | |
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Budman
Master of Wine
Posts:11874
| | 07/25/2004 12:31 PM |
| wiml... thanks for the guideline. I also have 6 left. My last bottle seemed a bit closed. Maybe the infamous 'dumb' phase.... I don't know. I entered that phase years ago and never came out!!!   | | | |
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love_cab_chard
Master of Wine
Posts:12485
| | 07/25/2004 12:45 PM |
| | I have six and haven't opened one yet. | | | |
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ChangeMe
Master of Wine
Posts:11169
| | 07/25/2004 12:49 PM |
| | lcc, do you remember at last year's Great Smokehouse dinner that after dinner, tt brought a wine he had just opened and poured us a taste blind? My first words to him were, "I hope this isn't the Numanthia." Of course it had been opened for only 15 minutes, but it was hard as nails. | | | |
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love_cab_chard
Master of Wine
Posts:12485
| | 07/25/2004 12:57 PM |
| | Absolutely, I am in no rush whatsoever to open any of them... | | | |
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wineismylife
Arlington, TX
Master of Wine
Posts:12246
| | 07/25/2004 1:43 PM |
| | Yeah bud, I'm still in my dumb phase as well. | |
Joe
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Pool Boy
Laurl, MD (DC suburb)
Master of Wine
Posts:13707
| | 07/25/2004 8:00 PM |
| I have three of my original 6 left and mine are going to sleep for a while now. I hope to cajoule one of you to opening one sometime in 2005 so I know how it is progressing.  | |
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ChangeMe
Master of Wine
Posts:12891
| | 07/26/2004 12:19 AM |
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you drank 3 already. what part of "it needs cellar time" are you having a hard time with? | | | |
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Pool Boy
Laurl, MD (DC suburb)
Master of Wine
Posts:13707
| | 07/26/2004 2:20 AM |
| Quote:
you drank 3 already. what part of "it needs cellar time" are you having a hard time with?
If only I had a bigger cellar to 'lose' these bottles in. I need to buy more bottles of my other wines. I hate drinking the last or only bottle of something hence my propensity to DRAB something when I really don't want to. D'oh! | |
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Joseph Bembry
Wine Lover
Posts:4875
| | 07/26/2004 12:49 PM |
| I bought 14 of these and have 6 left. 2 of them I gave away as gifts. The wine drank so well on release that I don't feel that any of them were wasted.
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David Walker
Barrel Sampler
Posts:2284
| | 07/27/2004 11:14 PM |
| | I bought 16 bottles of this on release and have a six-pack in the wood case left. I only really feel like I wasted one bottle. It was decanted for over 10 hours and that extraneous aeration really killed it. | | | |
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ChangeMe
Master of Wine
Posts:12891
| | 07/27/2004 11:38 PM |
| | to each his own. i felt mine was much better the second day around. | | | |
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Lee Ann
Barrel Filler
Posts:1232
| | 07/30/2004 5:49 PM |
| | We are having a bottle of 2000 Numanthia ronight- will post notes tomorrow! | | | |
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