Community Tasting Note

jayrod wrote:

Saturday, February 16, 2019 - Very nice bottle, had with lamb chops with a dill sauce.....good match.
My wine was also properly stored...FYi

I agree with 8/24/2018 - PAULUSLOZEBRA notes:

This wine comes from a cellar with very good conditions but with deliberate and substantial seasonal fluctuations, so that wines will age a bit faster than in "perfect" cellars at constant temperature and humidity. My sense is that this bottle shows the beginning of the wine's decline. That says more about the vintage 2008 than about Monsanto. This bottle still has a great, great fragrance profile of sweet cherries and hints of tobacco, raw meat and dark spices. And it still has excellent balance and integration among the acid, tannin and extract. But it has begun to lose something in the mid-palate. I recommend a 30 minute decant and that the wine be served slightly on the cool side. If you have a perfect cellar then drink to 2025, otherwise drink to 2022.

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