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[Drinking Outside The Box] High class smoky French oak, some of the typical Chilean blackcurrant pastille edge, ripe but not too ripe, with a minerally backbone, firm but never aggressive tannins, still young, but very promising.
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[The Wine Detective] The Wine Detective » Cape crusades with Schalk Burger, Jean Daneel ...: JD Initial Red 2007 - this blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Malbec, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot and, oh not Bordeaux, Shiraz, has an aromatic nose with perfumed blueberry following through on the palate (something I often notice with Jeans reds), together with warm earth/mineral notes. Its well structured despite being the baby - a reflection of a cooler year, plus Jean says in retrospect hed use less Malbec which he found a little aggressive, it seems more solid and sturdy Cahors than fleshy Argentine.
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[My Wine Education] My Wine Education: Wine-Girl.net's Virtual Thanksgiving Dinner ...: The lithe, thyme/green bean/mineral flavors of Grüner are backed by fairly generous ripe fruit in a zesty, bone-dry palate. Matched against such tough Thanksgiving customers as The Green Bean Casserole, Ecker suggests: have seconds.
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[Seidelberg] It's payback time: It’s great to hear about the awards. I know with anything, but I can imagine especially in the field of wine and winemaker, where so much time and effort from the fields to the cellar is invested in a wine, that once you are recognized in such a special way, it is always a great feeling…And always an inspiration to do better!
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