Community Tasting Note

forceberry wrote:

Wednesday, September 23, 2020 - From a 73 cl bottle that was opened the day before. No mention of alc% in the label.

Translucent dark orange-mahogany color with a dull yellow rim. Old, tertiary nose with aromas of sweet pruney fruit and plum compote, roasted meat, some pencil shavings, a little bit of earth, light cooked bell pepper tones, a hint of onion and a touch of soy sauce. The wine is silky and medium-bodied on the palate with old and very tertiary flavors of meaty umami, plum compote, pruney dark fruit, some rotting onion, a little bit of raisin and a pungent, salty hint of soy sauce. The structure relies more on the rather tough tannins than on the medium acidity. The finish is dry, old and very tertiary with flavors of meat, soy sauce, some rotting onion and a hint of raisin. The tannins make the wine end on a quite grippy note.

It's hard to say whether the wine was alive when the bottle was opened, but now, a day later, the wine certainly wasn't. Too tertiary to be enjoyable with lots of old-wine off-flavors. Past its peak.

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