Community Tasting Note

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Tuesday, May 20, 2014 - Update from my first tasting:
Nose: Cherry, with dark plum, eucalyptus, cinnamon, sandalwood, and a bit of meat.
Taste: Black cherry predominates, but goes watery after ten seconds or so. Accompanied by flinty earth, tart citrus zest, and dusty tannin.
Attack: soft for ten seconds, then acid and tannin dry the palate. Somewhat short finish.
Window: 2015-2018.
Overall: I gave this an 86 the first time around. Maybe there was some bottle shock going on, or a threshold level of cork taint. Either way, this bottle is much better. There's a fair bit more fruit, and the spice box is more muted. However, there's a watery thinness from the middle on, plus that dark plum bit, that cause this to be poorly integrated. Still poor QPR for $18, but at least now it's in the ballpark.

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