Community Tasting Note

rarewineman wrote:

Monday, December 26, 2011 - Initial nose of dense plum, leather, Istanbul tobacco, with brighter blackberry and raspberry hints. It drank like silk at first, and relatively light to what I would eventually experience. After thirty minutes the wine developed heavy tannins and a dry finish, adding smells of old purse, hay barn, and horse saddle. Many would claim this to be brett., but I found it very enjoyable. Another half hour brought the second coming of fruit in its original form of plum, this time a sauteed plum sauce, with smells of roasted pork, beef stock, seasoning, spices, and cranberry. The tannins softened to form excetional length, strength and beauty. Flavors of rich, ripe blackberry and other dark fruits coated the mouth. A wine of such aromatic density, complexity, concentration and structure deserves decades of aging and a meal for kings.

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