Jan de Weerd

9.7

Is there something like a reduction from...pure blood?? If so, this was as close as you get to it. So dark, so rich in minerality, bottomless depth. Dried dark, tart cherry and strawberry soaked in oak with penetrating notes of vanilla. Happy birthday Tammy! 🍷🍷 — 7 hours ago

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Jan de Weerd

9.4

It was good, it stayed good, it was intense. Yes strong oak notes, as to be expected, up front but well integrated with the dark fruit. Nice depth and a soothing finish. Very balanced. — 9 days ago

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Jan de Weerd

9.3

Full bodied intense wine that started out fantastic but petered our too quickly. Still giving it a good score for how it started out with dark cherry , forest floor and well integrated tobacco tannin providing intrigue and depth. After two hours it became very herbal and a bit flat. — 17 days ago

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Jan de Weerd

9.1

Best $10 bottle I have bought! At Trader Joe’s, picked up a very nice Ripasso. Dense red fruit with a great mineral, spicy dry edge giving satisfying complexity. — 3 days ago

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Jan de Weerd

9.2

Contrary to the pros I am scoring it high because it offers everything I like in a wine. It has the bite from the higher % petit Verdot, it has a rich mid palet with vibrant fruit from the merlot and has depth and finish from the cab. A nice trio playing a beautiful symphony on a soft early summer night in Idaho. — 5 days ago

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Jan de Weerd

9.2

Rich, classic Barossa Shiraz. Jammy with a spicy dry edge. Cedar drenched strawberries comes to mind. Perhaps doesn’t sound appetizing but it provided a nice lingering flavor in the finish. — 12 days ago

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Jan de Weerd

9.6

Wow. This wine evolved into a tremendous grand finally. Dark concentrated fruit perfumed with violet and lavender. Slight sweetness in the background integrated with spiciness gave it a soothing finish — 4 days ago

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Jan de Weerd

9.1

Red Fruit forward ready to drink directly out of the bottle. Nice earthy, barnyardy undertones. — 7 days ago

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Jan de Weerd

9.1

Dark, ripe cherry with integrated soft earthy tannins giving it a very nice finish. Notes of leader, fig and spice. We drank out of a stainless steel thermos with our picknick, baguette, salami, fig spread and various Italian cheeses picknick after a 2.5 mile hike along the abandoned rail road with a roaring Payette river as the back ground. Fun times! — 11 days ago

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Jan de Weerd

9.6

Given the awesome wine we had from Delas just a few days ago, we decided to pull another one out from the collection we had brought back from the Rhône valley during our visit in 2017. This one from the northern Rhône region. Crozes Hermitage. Not the top sub region on paper but we must have recognized something in it when tasting.... It was Awesome!!! Beautifully integrated tannins blended with soft spices and dark fruit of cherry, currant and fig. Loved it! Even more so because I got to drink most of it as Tammy is on a diet. I like her diet!! 😜 — 22 days ago

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