87 Robert Parker
PRODUCTION: 2,690 cases. A very advanced color resembling rusty tea, with some medium ruby/garnet tints suggests a wine in full decline. However, the wine's fragrance, while teetering on the brink of deterioration, still carries plenty of sweet, smoky, aged beef and old saddle leather smells. The wine possesses full body, hot alcohol in the finish, a diffuse, unfocused style, and a degree of flabbiness and looseness. Although disjointed, it is clinging to life. Drink it up.
87 Wine Spectator
La T?che's typical wet earth, mineral and ironlike flavors come through nicely in this full-bodied wine. While the tannins are fairly smooth, an underlying lemon-spiked, unresolved acidity makes a slightly mouthpuckering finish.--La T?che vertical. Drink now through 2005. ?PM
87 Robert Parker
PRODUCTION: 2,690 cases. A very advanced color resembling rusty tea, with some medium ruby/garnet tints suggests a wine in full decline. However, the wine's fragrance, while teetering on the brink of deterioration, still carries plenty of sweet, smoky, aged beef and old saddle leather smells. The wine possesses full body, hot alcohol in the finish, a diffuse, unfocused style, and a degree of flabbiness and looseness. Although disjointed, it is clinging to life. Drink it up.
87 Wine Spectator
La T?che's typical wet earth, mineral and ironlike flavors come through nicely in this full-bodied wine. While the tannins are fairly smooth, an underlying lemon-spiked, unresolved acidity makes a slightly mouthpuckering finish.--La T?che vertical. Drink now through 2005. ?PM