Taste it Again: Hillebrand 2005 Trius Cabernet Franc
25 Oct 2014- Details
- Category: Lost & Found / Taste it Again
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(August 17, 2014) ... I have to admit having high hopes for this wine. One of the first few years of single varietal Trius wines, a hot vintage, one of my favorite grapes, what could go wrong? Well nothing has gone dastardly wrong, but it's hard to say that after 9 years things have gone exceedingly right either. The nose shows promise with dried raspberry and cedar character along with some smoky tobacco notes. Hopes remain fairly high. But the palate seems to be a little off (from my first impression notes): "Really very smoky and oaky, cigarette ashy and lots of toasted cedary notes." I then decide to aerate, after all its been in bottle 8 or so years, the result, smoked-dried-raspberry. I hope you're beginning to see a pattern here because the last impression this wine left on me was of an oaky smoky wine with hints, and I do mean hints, of dried red fruit, all with a very smoky-oaky finish.
(August 15, 2014) ... In hot vintages Red seems to deliver power and elegance and this '07 was no different. Now some seven years later I was ready to pop the cork and give it a try. All I can really say is lovely, both the nose and palate are at peak performance with black raspberry, vanilla and spice right off the pop ... As more air gets into the wine the fruit really starts to dominate and that fruit mix is just intoxicating. If you are lucky enough to be sitting on some in your cellar this will last a few more years with ease, but why wait its a beauty right now.
