Community Tasting Note

Mike Kopanski wrote:

Wednesday, March 20, 2013 - Popped and smelled the cork, got that aroma of steely, graphite minerality, then poured a glass. Perceived this wine had plenty of potential, but was pretty tightly wound. Drank about half the glass then poured everything into a decanter. The decanting immediately released some serious French oak. I'm sure this is one of those wines that will taste much better tomorrow, so we will describe what we have now, and save a glass or two overnight. There is serious deep purple color. Decanting released the oak aroma, but not much else beside a hint of roses. You get the impression some good things are hiding, or asleep. The mostly red fruit profile has the kind of spicy sharpness just made to age a little. So balanced, the fine little tannins, adequate, but not overpowering acidity, and even the oak are working in seamless harmony. At this point, there is a slight bitterness on the finish that is accompanied by an emerging rich dark cherry floating in vanilla.

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