Community Tasting Note

Bordeaux_Jon Does not like this wine:

Saturday, January 18, 2020 - A full bottle with very very high shoulder fill, great looking cork and label. This was an utter disappointment. Quite bretty and austere with red fruit and cigar. Still tannic and bretty on the palate. I strongly recommend you look elsewhere for that "wine of the century" experience. Frankly, it's just past peak and also contaminated by brett with robs the wine of complexity in this case. It got a bit better with air, but I was expecting the ground to shake given the reviews. Caveat emptor!

I should mention to the haters out there that again the bottle was in great shape and served double blind to 11 people who are wine professionals and decades long drinkers along with 5 other 94+ Cellartracker wines. The bottle was not flawed unless Brett in a 30 year old Bordeaux is a flaw. Unfortunately, it’s hard to be biased by labels and Parker scores double blind. I’m sure there are better (and worse) bottles out there. I just want folks to know they might not get a better one.

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