bramble fruits

The winemaker from Stephen Vincent, Robert Goyette and formerly of La Crema. This nearly opaque red. Nice blackberry and cassis or currant. Not as powerful in the palate as it is to the nose. Predominant flavors are:...

I recently got my hand on several bottles of this vintage, and to be honest, i was a little spectacle about how this wine would hold up after 35 years. Wow! What an amazing experience this bottle turned out to be. I drank...

Wow! What a difference some time in the cellar makes. I opened one of my 3 bottles of the 2001 Haan Merlot Prestige about 2 years ago. For all the good reviews it was very closed and not at all the complex fruit bomb I...

Big and bold, lots of smoke and wood, like if you set your oak cabin on fire, then collect the insurance and spend it on blackberries.

Black olives and bay leaf flavors on the nose. Rich and dense with chocolate and green pepper notes. There's a hint of truffle and some barnyard, before the wine finishes on barely ripe raspberries and cherry flavors....

A very earthy nose of mushrooms, wet soil and truffles. Firm acids on the attack, give way to sour cherry and raspberry flavors. The finish is taught, but offers good fruit and some nice vanilla tones from the oak.

earthy, very gamey, mushrooms on the nose with hints of varying red fruits, cocoa and some spice on the palate, with richer fruit components - black cherry, blackberry and earth tones on the finish.

intense fruit aromas, cherries, raspberries, plums and some underly red spices, some cocoa chocolate notes on the palate, a little earthiness with black cherry and plum nutmeg spicses, a lingering finish with decent...

cola and cherries on the nose with some spice, nutmeg and cinnamon, more spicy in taste with raspberry and cranberry notes, still needs some time but enjoyable