Color/Appearance
Incredibly light gold
Score: 3.5
Smell/Aroma
1st sniff – bright grapes, smells like good champagne!
2nd sniff, 2-3 minutes – light booze, faint nutmeg and smoke
3rd sniff, 8-10 minutes – raisins and flan
Score: 4
Taste/Flavor/Mouthfeel
– spicey sweet oak barrel, little rough at the end
– short fruit spike on the front leading to a quick report of smoke, with a longish finish of barrel notes
– slightly astringent
– thin mouthfeel
Score: 3.5
Experience
– Certainly nothing to complain about. Smells pretty fantastic, but the palate doesn’t quite match the hype on the nose. Better than average.
Score = 3.5
Overall = 3
Pleasant but not exceptional.
Cumulative = 14.5/20
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