Community Tasting Note

• bevetroppo Does not like this wine: 85 points

  January 13, 2014 - What was I thinking when I bought this? I must have been in an exploratory mindframe, but then, I shouldn't have shoved it onto an inaccessible shelf where I wouldn't find it for 8 years or whatever.
  
  If it was ever any good, it's now weary, stale and unprofitable. Ponderous, syrupy, and dull. It's not BAD, per se, just a thick mass of faded prune-like brambly fruit that breaks down in the mid-palate on its way to a weak yet hot finish. Could be my fault entirely cause who knows how long this is supposed to last? I may have to get a jump on spring cleaning my cellar, or perhaps the more appropriate term is winter pruning?
  
  Update: for those of you who may not have seen my notes before-I never look at any other notes before tasting and recording my own. But I was struck by two things after I made my initial posting. First, the community seems to love this wine, so maybe I just got an off bottle. I don't recognize it from any of the 90 or so other mostly positive notes. Second, the wildly favorable "professional" review is from Gary Vaynerchuk. As my father used to say, "you pays your money, you takes your chances."

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6 Comments

• TheBosWineGuy commented:

  1/13/14, 6:45 PM - Antonio Galloni, formerly of the Wine Advocate, scored the wine 94 points, which is a really big score from him. Interestingly, the last bottle I had seemed to show the structure falling apart a bit...

• bevetroppo commented:

  1/13/14, 8:14 PM - Thanks for the comment. I try desperately to avoid reliance on points but I'm not immune. Any combination of Galloni, Parker, and Vaynerchuk over 92 on one wine is from lots of trial and error likely to be too big for my taste.

• Charlie Pendejo commented:

  1/14/14, 5:27 AM - Additionally, several of us encountered dodgy looking corks. I had one stained two thirds of its length; that bottle was sound, it turned out, while my next was corked to the gills. Wonder if that could have been an issue? But yeah, this is no classical slender wine.

• bevetroppo commented:

  1/14/14, 6:18 AM - Thanks, Charlie. I have one bottle left that has been perfectly stored if someone wants to swap :-) My cork was fine but I still poured half a bottle down the drain.

• Charlie Pendejo commented:

  1/14/14, 7:37 AM - Let's see if I find my final bottle fantastic, fair, foul, or effin' unfinishable, then I may take you up on that - though it's a pity you wouldn't dig any of the overblown new-world bottles I most ardently wish to weed out of my little wine-garden.

• bevetroppo commented:

  1/14/14, 12:27 PM - Well said, Charlie. Good luck and good drinking!

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