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1994 Kalin Cellars Sémillon - USA, California, San Francisco Bay, Livermore Valley (1/10/2010)
Last bottle had signs of seepage…this bottle was in perfect cond. Darker golden in color, oxidative nose?? Ah oh? First taste…oxidized…I almost dumped it. Let it breath a few more minutes…couple swishes and spits…the wine came alive! Does have some oxidative sherry to it, but in an aged wine way. Canned peach, apples, not the waxy banana like I got last time(2007). Very smooth and creamy…yea…little honeycomb wax…loaded with hazelnut butter spice, torched sugar, lemon minerals. Very interesting sipping wine…I’m not too keen on oxidative notes in wines, but sometimes they work well to add to the complexity of an aged white. Not as excited in this bottle as I was 2 yrs ago…but still, has some extremely interesting flavors…and all-in-all, a fascinating wine! (90 pts.)
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