From a list at a restaurant this past weekend with a prime porterhouse. Full of black raspberries and roasted meat, this is a great wine to enjoy today. Very dense and rich on the palate but not jammy. It has great structure as well, but I can’t imagine it getting much better. Drink them if you have them with a big juicy steak or perhaps even better, some lamb.
Not sure as I haven’t had them Todd. I’ll say that I really like older wines. I see you’re a Chave guy. I am too and I let those things go forever. I have more bottles of Chave than anything else in my cellar. This stuff though is so good now in a fruit forward way that I think people should at least try them. They’ll last without a doubt, but will they be better? I’m not sure. I would say if you don’t like a lot of fruit in your wine, and there are a lot of times that I don’t want to drink that kind of wine either, then avoid them. I worry about these ripe vintage Rhone wines picking up pruney flavors as they age. I don’t like that much. This is certainly not overripe or cloying at this time, so I would give them a try.
I think this wine will be enjoyable for many years, and the user’s preference will do as much to determine the peak of the wine as the wine itself. For at least a decade.