Community Tasting Note

Eating is Cheating wrote:

Sunday, October 25, 2009 - The first of 3 loose bottles (there is also a case yet to be attacked). Decanted approx 2 hours. Intense, deep indigo-purple colour, deep hue right out to the edge, almost opaque, showing really no development at all. The nose continues in similar vein - a very full-on bouquet of piercing blackcurrant and blackberry, black cherry, and other quite primary (but oak-driven) elements such as caramel. As it opens out, aromas of cedar and pencil shavings also appear. Each aroma is itself very impressive but they have yet to resolve in any meaningful way. The same theme is continued on the palate - a spicy but delicious entry which is heavy on oak gives way to a huge, mouthfilling wealth of blackberry, cassis, coffee and cherry on the mid-palate, the flavours striving manfully to mask the massive tannins until the latter emerge on the finish, which is dry and tannic but nevertheless very long. This wine potentially has everything in spades (massive, pure, fruit; oak notes; a wealth of ripe tannins; length and purity on the palate; beautifully judged acidity to string it all together) ... but for now it is a mere infant, all these building blocks of a potentially stunning wine just jumbled together in the glass without having yet knit together. This is intriguing, and I am glad I have a good stock of further bottles through which to monitor its development. Excellent, but hold for some time.

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