Community Tasting Note
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pmarlo Likes this wine: 95 points
January 27, 2024 - The fruit was spectacular right upon opening. Just generous flavor, such wonderful fruit. Cork was extracted with two prong opener but it pushed in. Had to then back out and use corkscrew. But this was the best showing of the three bottles I had of this wine. 95 today. Really good and searching for descriptives. Sealed with vacuum plug and will the fruit last or fade? Update: didn't return to this for almost a week (but vacuum sealed in the interim). Fruit did fade, and wine was at it's best its first day opened. Still decent, but the fruit, which was definitely the star, stepped. Back. This wine was ready now. As this bottle was twenty years old, I am wondering if my first two so-so tastings several years ago due to bottle variation, or if this wine needed that much bottle time to shine? My rating is for the first day.
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5 Comments
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Decanting Queen commented:
2/6/24, 3:18 AM - Did you double decant this or give it any air before drinking on day 1? Considering bringing this to a dinner and wondering about prep!
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pmarlo commented:
2/6/24, 7:33 AM - DC, No decant, and I pretty much popped and poured, but did pass at least one glass through Vinturi. All three of my bottles had sediment, and mostly in the last pour. The fine meshed Vinturi screen did a good job of filtering that out.
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Decanting Queen commented:
2/7/24, 3:06 AM - Thanks, that is really helpful. I will plan to give it a quick double decant but won’t give it lots of airtime otherwise.
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Genghis88 commented:
2/23/24, 8:02 PM - I'll be opening a bottle this weekend. Thanks for your notes.
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pmarlo commented:
2/27/24, 8:23 AM - Ghengis88 you're welcome, and hope this helps.