Eighty Four Petite Sirah 2010
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This is dark, bold and highly aromatic, yet retains a sense of restraint and grace. Sandalwood, white pepper, dried lavender and rosemary give in to ripe, juicy huckleberry and blueberry flavors. The tannins are both mouthfilling and plush. The finish just goes on and on. Drink now through 2030.
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Wine Enthusiast
This is big boisterous wine from Elias Fernandez and Doug Shafer that has been given some nice time in bottle after four years in new French oak. It's a viscous, black-as-night kind of experience. Coconut macaroon and juicy blackberry and blueberry substantiate structured, integrated tannin, finishing with an unexpected elegance.
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Connoisseurs' Guide
Big, rich, saturated, extracted, dark, inky, dramatic are the first thoughts that arise when smelling this wine, and then come the very specific Petite Sirah characteristics of blackberries, dark spice, briar and underlying it all is a veneer of creamy oak. Some may find this wine to be too much of a good thing, and certainly it does not play by classic rules in its flirtations with bold, over-the top ripeness in both nose and mouth, but concentrated fruit sits at the very center here, and it not only saves the wine from itself but it makes the wine into a fascinating study of depth, power and all-out intensity. It will age for another half-decade with ease and probably last another ten years.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2010 Petite Sirah is a seriously endowed, dense purple-colored wine with loads of blue and black fruits, a touch of incense and floral notes. It’s full-bodied , monolithic and somewhat of a blockbuster, although it certainly will age beautifully for at least 20-25 years. Rating: 90+
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