Community Tasting Note

p2002 wrote:

Sunday, March 2, 2014 - The cork tore in two and seemed a bit fragile from age, but I'll cop to using a rabbit type pull and not giving due respect to a 10yr old bottle. Once I fished out the remains and filtered out the cork bits all was well with no indication of oxidation.
On the pour the wine showed transparent and brownish brick in color as would be consistent with it's age.
On the nose it was riotous barnyard funk and earth. I wrote down that I found a faint scent of strawberry and noted this on the first tasting impression, but in truth I suspect I am just trying to justify the price of admission here. With the first taste and onto day two this wine is tannin laden and dusty dry, and as I said, the berry notes are subtle if existent at all. I found this to be a wine meant to be paired with food and in fact it faired well when doing so; in this case braised pork rib, but not a wine to be had enjoyably on it's own.

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