Community Tasting Note

ckinv368 wrote:

Thursday, February 9, 2012 - Garnet colored in the glass all the way through. Any ruby notes it's had are long gone. Definitely meaty, earthy, leathery, smokey with maybe some very bitter herbal and blackberry notes to it. But it seems like this bottle has lost most of its bright vibrant fruit, if it ever had any to begin with. Some real acidic backbone for sure. Notes of vanilla and old library book on the nose. Finishes with a sour-currant taste that isn't unpleasant, but certainly isn't expected. If I had to guess, I'd say the wine is a couple of years past the prime that the wine-maker imagined. Not that it's a bad wine. It's just that we're in a bit of uncharted territory at this point. Seems like it was meant to be drunk very young, and with a few years of age it seems like it just isn't all it used to have been / could have been. Will wait until trying the next bottle before passing final judgment on the whole lot.

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