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"Reddish mahogany color. Sweet spicy herbs, wet zoo animal, and oily ox leather aromas follow through to a sweet, winey medium-bodied palate with jumbled spices and herbs, wet fur, charred barrel water, and sandalwood flavors. Finishes with a sugary, astringent, pink peppercorn fade and scorched spices. A curious blend of sweet spice and barnyard flavors, try with goat cheese."

"Light yellow, full, fruity nose, the palate expreiences yellow apples and gooseberries in this dry and juicy wine with great balance and excellent fruit."

"Orange and lemon blossom and oily zest dominate the nose and firm, almost sharply bright palate, with supplemental floral perfume as well as pungent herbs emerging as the wine opens up. The finish is piquant and intensely invigorating, offering a reverberative interplay of citrus, bittersweetly floral perfume, apricot pit, citrus pip, crushed stone, salts, and mysteriously ore-like mineral presence. For sheer palpable sense of density and extract this surpasses most Kamptal Rieslings of its vintage, and in terms of sheer energy, it finishes not far behind. This ought to prove exciting to follow for the next 8-10 years, if not longer."