Frank Kuo

9.6

Another bottle of this after 1st taste 5 years ago. Color of deep ruby, purple, and a bit burgundy, clear. Nose of concentrated aldehyde, dried strawberry, plum, oak, and menthol. Simply beautiful. Taste is amazing, sophisticated sweetness, oak, spice from alcohol, tobacco leaves, sugar plum, dried strawberry, zest note, a touch of mineral, and refined solid tannins. Silky and tasty. Aftertaste is long with silky finish, rind zest, oak, and some more sweetness. A treat. — 25 days ago

Frank Kuo

9.4

Second bottle of this wine a few months later. Flavors and feelings are similar to the first notes. Pretty nice and refined. — a month ago

Frank Kuo

9.2

Color of shades of purple with a touch of ruby, a bit cloudy. Nose of crayon, spice, dark fruits like cherry, vanilla, ripe grapes, a bit flowering note, and a bit minty. Taste is round and polished, slightly sweet dark fruits, with milky chocolate note, oaky vanilla, soft tannins, ripe grapes again, a bit spice and minty, quite silky and smooth. Aftertaste shows some more zest. A crowd pleaser but a bit too sweet for me. — 2 months ago

Frank Kuo

9.4

Another bottle of this (last tasting is 2018). Nose is really beautiful, fragrant, and concentrated. Noses are consistent with last tasting and definitely superior than 2013. Taste is slightly sweet and almost no tannins, dark fruits, oaky, tobacco leaves, and mineral. Consistent with last tasting too. Finish is long and savory. — a month ago

Frank Kuo

9.4

Color of cranberry juice with a bit hue of orange, clear. Nose is concentrated and beautiful, with fragrant aldehyde, crayon, oily paint, maple, and strength of alcohol. Nose keeps coming. Taste follows the nose with ripe aldehyde note again, plus clementine sweetness and rind, silky, and you can feel the steroid alcohol is coated with flavors. Aftertaste is medium with more zest and sweetness, pretty high end Pinot Noir. — a month ago

Frank Kuo

8.8

Color of ruby with a bit purple shade. Nose is quite sweet with very strong fermented cabbage note, leather, carbonated water, musty note, and some salty seed weed. Quite weird and not a fan. Taste is better but follows the nose with addition of some zesty note, and some sweetness from cranberry. Aftertaste is quite light, no tannins, but nothing edgy. — 2 months ago

Frank Kuo

9.6

2nd bottle of this almost 4 years later. Still a wow with refined tannins, copious fragrances, concentrated flavors, and very long finish with heat. Bravo. — a month ago

Frank Kuo

9.4

Second bottle of this wine a year later. You definitely need to decant her. Once again, good concentrated fragrant nose and plenty of it. Silky taste with dark fruits and refined yet still powerful tannins. Aftertaste of some more minerals I didn’t catch 1 year ago. Cheers. — a month ago

Frank Kuo

9.2

Color of light gold. Nose is permeated with ripe fruits, pineapple and banana, nutty, Sprite, sweet clementine and a bit mineral. Nose is pretty good. Taste of salty mineral, less sweet than nose, roasted nuts again, fruit notes not dominant, a bit spice, sprinkled of zest, silky and full body. Aftertaste of more mineral note, a bit short. Overall decent surprise. — a month ago

Frank Kuo

9.2

Color is clear dark burgundy. Nose is nice with refined and concentrated aldehyde, dried strawberry, vanilla, a bit oaky, a bit cherry, a bit crayon, and a bit milk chocolate. Taste is a bit sweet and following the nose, with addition of ripe grapes and zesty note. Low in tannins and sweeter than expected. And a bit coke and savory spice flavor. Aftertaste of a bit more peppery and bittersweet note . Clean and good flavors, just a bit too light in taste. — 2 months ago