Community Tasting Note
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WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine: 100 points
April 14, 2024 - Eyes Wide Shut - Day 2 (A quiet place): Nose: Dark red currants, barely ripe black cherries, lightly spiced clean oak, and fragrant earth.
Palate: Intense and brooding fruits but with surprising class and sophistication, no kinda sleaziness here. Lifted earthiness and dark minerals help keep the flavor profile proper and regal. Ridiculous amounts of oomf in this, really tasty. This shows solid restraint, only showing off if need be (don't need to at all, honestly).
This was the first bottle of the blind, and as we began tasting, the silence was deafening. The murmuring that followed that silence continued to arouse my curiosity, as I'm sure it did the others. More excitement was built as talks of what this could possibly be was being discussed, and especially being this tasty as the first wine of the blind.
The reveal seemed to came to no ones' surprise. This was that good. I couldn't be for certain that this was the MacDonald because I couldn't find the olive note. Didn't need it though, as this still killed it. Set the bar damn high for this blind.. might've screwed me as well.
Double decanted for ~18 hours.3 people found this helpful 1,759 views
2 Comments
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jmw17 commented:
4/23/24, 7:52 AM - What does 18 hrs of stretching mean?
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WineBurrowingWombat commented:
5/4/24, 3:46 PM - Oops, decanting* thanks for the catch!