Erna Schein Cemetery

Excellent. Last bottle, sadly.

Deep ruby color, not black, belies a powerhouse of dark fruits- dried blueberries, black currant, and damp earth, cigar box. Pristine, very little sediment, brilliant, youthful but serious, stately. Savory pyrazines add structure and seriousness to an underlying ripeness which translates to richness rather than overt fruit. Lovely long tannic finish.

Pnp. Big fruit & dense yet so smooth given it's age. Try one soon, don't think this will get better. Drinking well now.

Opened and let it breath in the bottle for about 4 hours before drinking. Very dark in color. Nice fragrant nose. Plenty of fruit on the front and mid-palate. Nice long finish. This is a great wine. Has still has plenty of legs left to drink over the next 3-5 years, but drinking great now also.

Classic Behrens/Schein - tons of overripe fruit, highly extracted, smooth but still dense tannins underneath with plenty of alcohol. More than just a fruit bomb, some dried herbs and veggies in background but the alcohol took it down a point for me.

Maybe it was the company of friends, maybe it was the memories associated with this winery, maybe it was the filet mignon. Whatever the case, this wine was my WOTN (and we had some amazing wine). Opened just an hour before pouring. Very balanced. Delightful dark fruit on the nose and palate. Not too big....just right. I highly recommend drinking now.

Decanted then returned to the bottle for 8 hours. A deep, complicated wine which is still too young. A dense core of dark fruit almost foreboding in its hint of power, continued to change in the glass over four hours. Cedar was always on stage with asphalt, herbs, and spices making cameos. Still a bit tannic and in-development, this has all the signs of a thoroughbred.

Big napa cab

Very intense fruit balances alcohol well.