Community Tasting Note

chablis28 wrote:

Saturday, May 16, 2015 - Not a rock star but a crowd pleaser, or at least, a daughter pleaser. Ana rarely comments about the wines I serve but she loved this one as did Nita. Both of them lean towards bigger richer wines like many non wine geeks. Ana came over with the main attraction of the night, our 11 month old grandson. So I laid back on the wine a bit since Keegan got most of the attention from everyone, including me. So this was totally the right wine :) This shows the over ripeness of '09 with sweet lush fruit. AlC 14.9%, or in other words, easily 15%, adds to the sense of weight. Too much cola on the nose. For me personally, a swell 87-89pt wine. For most non wine geeks like my daughter and wife a 93pt+ wine :). I doubt even Tom & Deb, owners of LCD, would say this is 100% in their personal wheelhouses. That said, for all its Alc and ripeness, this is a pretty tasty balanced wine. For me, I'd rather drink a more finessed "off vintage" Le cadeau as that is where the house excels in my opinion, often offering up feather weight, more ethereal, PNs without the cola. I haven't had a 2011 Le Cadeau yet but I'd love to drink one. I doubt I'll fall in love the 2012's. I wasn't excited about an early 2012 Aterbery Maresh I had recently when compared with 2011. Keegan was 100pts as usual :)

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