Community Tasting Note

• jdtonic Likes this wine: 95 points

  July 9, 2020 - out of wood
  ruby red
  splash decant
  
  A reticent nose of red fruits, funk and yellow flowers. a fluid carnival atmosphere, with smoke, steam, and various other attention diversions and impediments to good taste —and tasting well- stole a point maybe, and another rolling party where the best company was french- and at work. (They assured me that the wine was outstanding. wink.)
  
  The waiter mgr wished to add ‘champignons du bois’ to her profile. I agree that the red fruited palate was nice but shy — a little more plummy the next afternoon. Some spice emerging. Rose water. Ennui?
  
  Admittedly, I felt she ~ Tasted Young ~ a ubiquitous term often used to defend the speedy monoliths.
  
  I found myself searching out the word “precise” to describe the subtle palate of this wine— another term sometimes deployed to assuage the creeping realization that a 2016 rhys alpine would have a been a far wiser choice of beverage on Thursday. (But that’s on me, and not the Civil Society of Romanian Counts or anyone else.
  
  HOLD OFF
  94-95

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