Description
Parker: 96/100
Galloni: 97/100
Jeannie Chio Lee: 98/100
When to drink: 2018 to 2028
Gabriel:
| Drinking maturity | drink up |
|---|---|
| Valuation | 18/20 |
| Quite a dark garnet colour, but already showing a lot of ripe tones on the rim. Warm, hot bouquet, candied fruit, sultanas, traces of honey (like a Lafleur!), mint tones, candied lemon peel in the dry-sweet nose. The palate begins creamy, lush with plump tannins on the outside, but then a fine, pithy dryness can be felt inside the tannins. Will probably have reached its peak of enjoyment by now. (18/20). 10: Ginger notes, coconut, red fruits, gianduja chocolate notes, cedar and cold chocolate, a hint of overripe notes of delicately raisined Merlot. Thick, rich, velvety and pleasing on the palate. The best impression so far of a wine that logically costs much more than possible appellation alternatives. The best impression of this wine so far: 19/20! Was it the Gabriel Gold glass? 11: Ripe wine red, clearly orange colouring towards the rim. Full sweet bouquet, colheita port notes, roasted coffee, musky notes, showing the typical 1982 vulgarity, freshly tanned leather. (18/20). 12: We served the wine in the Bussumsche Wijnkopery (Holland) directly from the bottle, without decanting. Medium-dark wine red colour. The bouquet starts off unconventionally. I decanted the wine several times because I suspected a reduction and so it was. Started foxy with tones of sweaty red smear cheese, then, as the wine recovered, milk chocolate, red plums, Napolita biscuits came in, picked up and became more and more Burgundian and also sweeter. Soft, velvety on the palate with a nice fullness, enough fat in the extract, which indicates a medium concentration. Still showed quite a lot of astringency from residual tannins. | |
