Community Tasting Note

forceberry wrote:

Thursday, January 15, 2015 - Dark, intense and very slightly translucent cherry red color with a light purple hue. Fresh and savory nose with fragrant aromas of licorice, fresh blackcurrants, some perfumed floral character and a toasty hint of smoke. On the palate the wine feels medium-bodied and surprisingly fresh on the palate with quite complex, somewhat angular and very savory flavors of fresh blackcurrants, dark plums, somewhat pronounced herbal bitterness, a little bit of crunchy dark fruits, a little bit of smoky and earthy character and a hint of leather. Although not that tightly-knit, the wine still feels pretty structured with its moderately high acidity and firm medium tannins. The finish is quite bitter and savory with pronounced stony minerality, crunchy dark berries, somewhat sweeter plummy fruit and flavors of savory wood spice, pencil shavings, some earthy tones, a little bit of herbal bitterness and an astringent hint of wood.

This wine feels fairly classicist in style with more emphasis on savory and slightly bitter tones than on overtly ripe fruit character and sweet oak spice. Although quite balanced and somewhat muscular, the wine really doesn't feel like it is built for the really long haul. However, I can see it developing for good many years to come, feeling like it is a bit awkward and immature at this phase. A fairly good effort for a 2011, which has been a vintage producing very irregular and often underwhelming wines. I'd imagine this wine needs to be close to or over 10 years old before it starts to sing.

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