Community Tasting Note

Marc wrote:

Thursday, June 2, 2016 - Fine-Wine Winter Dinner (Ponsonby, Auckland, New Zealand): Stunning purity on the nose - beautiful perfume with refined smoke and hung meat aspects. In the mouth, this is lean and slightly angular but with intense poise and focus. It was a good, but not great match with an 11 Madison Park recipe for Guinea Fowl, Parsnips and Oats, as the rich recipe demands a rounder wine (which the 2001 La Chapelle offered a month ago). The wine is absolutely outstanding and is showing very little development and promises to age and transform in a positive manner for 20 more years, although it will always be a leaner, more "Burgundian" style of Hermitage, in this vintage.

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