Community Tasting Note
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Catnapped wrote: 99 points
June 21, 2008 - Got the last bottle of this at Canlis. Huge wine, still quite young. Very dark (inky black) and earthy. Huge nose, lots of dark cherry and mocha on the palate, and big bacon smoke on the nose after it had been open for a while. This was my first La Turque, and I found it to have a much more rustic style than the other two single vineyards (if it makes sense to apply the word "rustic" to such a finely crafted wine). Tart and tannic right out of the bottle, but after about a half hour in the decanter, it opened up and showed itself to be a massive, beautifully balanced powerhouse that still managed to compliment the food we were eating without overwhelming it. It continued to open up and reveal new flavors over the next two hours. I was sorry to see it go. Next time I would decant it a little earlier and sample lightly for at least the first hour to give it more time.
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