Community Tasting Note

David Paris (dbp) wrote:

Wednesday, July 18, 2012 - Pop and poured, in glass 20 minutes, drank over 4 hours. Certainly smells like a Bordeaux with some age on it, but a fairly cheap one. Things are a bit musty at first, but underneath that is graphite covered currants, some plum sauce, and some pickled greens. The palate entry hits with some nice red fruits mixed with darker berries, very mild acid, and very soft, barely left tannins. Pleasing fruit flavors and texture on the palate, where this shows very nicely. The finish gets off balanced though, as there's some volatile acidity and a mustiness to the fruit that really isn't pleasing. 10 seconds later acid lingers, but that mustiness is still there in an unpleasant way. This mustiness does subside a bit as the bottle has been open longer. Glad I picked up several of these, but glad I avoided the case I was thinking of. A good fun wine with age for a cheap price. Next time give this more air, because it definitely was best after open awhile (even better the next day).

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