Community Tasting Note

Saturday, March 10, 2018 - This wine pours an inky purple with a garnet core, a brickish orange rim and long legs. With time and air (5 hours), the wine starts to unravel its denseness and the nose is all the more powerful and concentrated. The bouquet yields a harmonious marriage between primary black fruits, macerated cherries, lead pencil shavings, stewed plums, and tertiary notes of cedar, cigar box, smoked meats, black tar and burnished leather. Such angularity is classic St. Estephe. The age is really starting to take a grip. On the palate, the characteristically harsh tannins of this AOC are now mellow, resolved, and well-integrated into the wine. Along with the bold structure yields a supple generosity in the juice. Despite the age, the wine is still lively and kicking, thanks to its balancing acidity. Just like the nose, tertiary notes are starting to preponderate and there are plenty of cigar smoke, ripe cherries, green peppercorns, cassis, coffee, sous bois and leather. The wine lingers on for a very long time and displays layers upon layers of flavors with flair. Finally, the juice concludes in a smoky, peppery finish that is intertwined with plush cherry sweetness. This wine is a textbook example of what a gracefully-aged reference Bordeaux can offer. It is certainly at its prime now and will surely hold for more years ahead.

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