Community Tasting Note

Joe Belmaati wrote:

Thursday, May 20, 2004 - Dark red with slight clearing at the rim. Sweet scents of vanilla, ribena juice, and oak. There were also hints of cassis. Very powerful, dense and concentrated with an almost brutally intense flavour impact. Very low in acid and with a warm and embracing character. I had this wine pegged as a Californian cabernet, perhaps Shafer Hillside Select - my favourite American wine - as I did not pick up any classic Bordeaux notes. There was no tobacco, no leather, no lead pencil, and to be frank, I found this wine to be somewhat lacking in structure. But for sheer hedonistic pleasure, this wine is hard to beat. On a previous try with this wine I have found it to be classic, although decadent, St. Emilion and rated it 1 This bottle was different.

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