Community Tasting Note

vanpe003 wrote:

Saturday, November 9, 2013 - Fall 2013 Housecleaning: I like this, but what an oddball wine. It almost defies description. Sweet notes and a bit of petrol on the nose. On the palate - delicious. Spicy fruit with abundant acidity and a bit of a resinous character through the midpalate that holds it all together. Like many of the "heritage" bottlings (e.g. Bedrock) I've tasted, this reminds me as much of a homemade wine as anything else. A very good homemade wine to be sure. A simple pleasure that doesn't require a lot of thought or in-depth analysis. I like this more than my score would indicate.

Update: after open an hour or so, the thicker resinous notes blow, along with some of the spices. Still a nicely balanced wine, but becomes more mainstream without the earlier edgy character. Lively acidity with hard-to-pin-down fruit descriptors remain the signatures of this wine. Boosting the score to 90 pts, as this evolved version is probably more broadly appealing.

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