Community Tasting Note

Paul S wrote:

Sunday, February 20, 2011 - A Sweet Afternoon (Edmund and Shuming's place @ the Marbella): Again, excellent. Deeper coloured than the PX, this was an almost brownish, Amber tone. Lots of sweet spices on the nose - quite a bit spicier than the Gralyn PX actually - and then dried fruits, quite fruit-cake-like, dark chocolate and rum & raisins. Very nice, and those same flavours were just carried on into the palate. Here, the wine showed some bright acidity on the attack, but it was so weighty that it seemed rather stickier and more syrupy sweet than the PX that came before it. However, I did feel that this wine had an edginess and verve to it as well that belied all that weight and richness. On the mid-palate, you really noticed a solid body with a nice spine that supported all the rich dried fruit and dark chocolate notes. It had a long, long finish with tons of spice, rubber and clean fresh tail that had a pleasant warmth. I found the PX perhaps more enjoyable and better integrated, but this had a certain je nais sais qouis to it that made it stand out just as much, if not more so.

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