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Thursday, December 20, 2012

Journey's End Stellenbosch Merlot 2008 80 Points



Medium clear, color showing advanced evolution, garnet with brown rim.

Clean, tad soapy, probably very high pH, ripe to overipe plums, blueberries, minty/eucalyptus note, earthy, showy oak lending cedary character.

Dry with some residual suagr, alcohol noticeable and very high at 14.5% abv, medium plus acidity, fresh, ripe medium tannins, tad over extracted in style, masking the purity of fruit, muscular style, intense, lots of fruit to support further development in bottle. Now until 2018