Community Tasting Note

• wormfarmer Likes this wine: 89 points

  March 6, 2014 - There's a real Jekyll and Hyde quality to the notes here -- and I kinda get it, as this wine was a moving target all night. Mostly, I seem to have gotten the Jekyll: overall I'd call this a delicious, classic Rhone juice with great QPR. Drank over four hours, though, and every half hour seemed to show a very different wine. (N.b.: I would have guessed it to be a 2007, and not an 08 -- drinks big, juicy, and hot.)
  
  Didn't decant. It drank deliciously out of the bottle; got and stayed hot 30-60 minutes in; then blew off a bit and evened out. Some tannic grip. Mid-weight on the palate. Non-specific red fruit. And there's almost an herbal honey quality on the very back, as if a bit of thyme got in the honey jar and got reduced along with the berries. Satisfied at 18 a pop -- for those of you that got it for 6 (?!) at Premier Cru I curse you kindly.
  
  An aside: I think this still has gas in the tank. If I had more I'd happily cellar it for another year or two.
  
  Lastly, for those of you who haven't seen it, check out Amy's wine-truck:
  http://www.drvino.com/2012/07/12/wine-tasting-truck/

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