Community Tasting Note

• StefanAkiko Likes this wine: 93 points

  August 31, 2023 - Perfect cork in a sense: only 2 mm saturated and was extracted in one piece without any effort.
  Also: the cork reeked of TCA as I removed the foil. After thoroughly cleaning it and attracting the cork, the mouth of the btl still reeked terribly much. 🦨
  
  Thinking that the wine was probably gone, I sucked some with a straw. Lo and behold! The wine was pristine! So I taped up the inside and outside of the mouth with Gorilla Tape and decanted it. It worked like a charm! A less problematic way would be to siphon the wine, but difficult without a good tube...
  
  Deep red with slight bricking. ❣️
  
  A deep and velvety mature CS that has Napa written all over it. Acids are fresh and the big bold hug that this is has a long, balanced finish. Straightforward cassis and some small elements of complexity. Absolutely not a single whiff of oxidized notes.
  
  If your corks are perfect, I see absolutely no hurry for harvesting the pleasures of this brilliant wine.

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