Community Tasting Note

Quarked wrote:

Tuesday, July 16, 2013 - I opened this next to a regular '06 Koonunga Hill bottling to compare the two. On the first night the regular bottling (at 13.5% abv) was disjointed, hot, showing lots of fruit -- a real alcoholic mess. I would give it an 84 at best. The '76 bottling (at 14.5% abv) was smooth, showing muted fruit, with leather and cedar, and was very good, around an 88. But on night #2, the regular bottling had smoothed out and resembled the '76 on night #1. However, the '76 was even better, maybe 89. On night #3, the regular was again 24 hours behind the '76 bottling, but the '76 was outstanding, with the fruit showing itself through the smooth wood and earth, around 90-91. So, on any given night, I prefered the '76 bottling, but the regular just needed 24 hours of slow-ox to get it to a pretty similar point. But given that I paid only $2 more for the '76, that would be my clear preference.

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