Community Tasting Note

Trickyone wrote:

Sunday, January 3, 2016 - Big Gambles (Home): After having gambled with the first two wines of the day, I decided to open something that I knew (as much as one can) would be in excellent shape.
This bottle had settled into the deep yellow phase of its development and I let it warm up from the refrigerator before serving it.
One of my companions was trying to describe the first scent out of the glass, and when I got my first whiff, I said "If you want to know what Botrytis smells like, that's it." The pleasant combination of spiciness and mustiness was leaping out of the glass.
Once it had warmed up in the glass, the wine became lemony honey that worked so well with a Maytag Blue and a Stilton I had picked to counter the wine's almost overwhelming sweetness.
My original note had only one word: Infanticide. This wine had many years, even decades ahead of it. Amazing pleasure now, but it was years away from the brownish caramely maturity that fine Sauternes can achieve.

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