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Sweet Spot/Outstanding
This too is noticeably reduced and hard to assess. The restrained, intense and distinctly mineral-driven medium weight flavors possess plenty of palate coating dry extract as well as fine volume that is balanced off by vibrant acidity on the focused and cool finish. This is also really quite lovely if not quite as complex as the Longeays, at least not at this very early juncture.
October 2013
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