Community Tasting Note

Paul S wrote:

Sunday, October 20, 2013 - William & Gina's Wedding (Park Palace, Grand Park Hotel): From a 1.5 litre. After a great experience with another magnum a year back, this was a great disappointment. Served blind, I thought this was a decently good Burg, but would never have placed this as a Grand Cru, let alone one of the quality of Romanée St. Vivant. It seemed really advanced. The nose certainly smelt like something a lot more mature, with a wildness to its herb and meat and sous bois notes along with prettier notes of dark cherries, wild berries and some violet flowers. It was far from unpleasant, but this was nowhere near the aromatic fireworks that I recalled from the nose of the last bottle. It was the palate where this was a real let down though. There was nothing quite wrong with the wine - it was very clean, almost a bit lean, with fresh acidity and rather ripe tones of dark cherries and blackberries held in fine but firm tannins that seemed to be just on the verge of softening. Not a bad drink at all, but it was just that everything seemed a bit ho-hum, with not much complexity or even much interest to go around. While the finish had good length, with a little bit of earth and mineral and spice, it also seemed a bit light-weight, a little soft for an RSV. All in all, a decently good wine, but a bit boring. I am not sure whether it was shut down or whether this was an odd bottle. Whatever the case, the last bottle we was so much better that this seemed to be a different wine altogether.

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