This is one of those bottles that sat in my cellar for far too long, not because I was waiting for it to age, but because I was waiting for the perfect moment to open a wine called Zilzie. It just seemed to be a wine you wanted to open with friends at the right time ... the name was interesting, the label cool, and the blend fascinating, it needed friends to share. But each time the occasion arose to open it with friends it didn't feel like the right time and then it just got too late to open it with people, it was too old, and ... well ... I have no excuse for opening this wine 11 years from vintage date. Not saying this wine is bad, far from it, but something tells me its hey-day had long passed. With all that preamble I was still impressed with what was in the bottle: Black raspberry, black sambuca, and melted dark chocolate, all on the nose. When poured straight from the bottle the wine just wouldn't open up on the palate, so I had to run it through my Vino-Air and that helped to smooth things out and makes things more palatable. The best thing I can say is that it had interesting flavours that weren't fresh but not quite dried and a super long finish.
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