Community Tasting Note

Javachip wrote:

Tuesday, August 3, 2010 - Upper shoulder fill, cork fully saturated. Opened and tasted at 6:00 PM, then allowed to breathe slowly in the bottle until 9:00 PM, then decanted and served. Clear dark blood-brick red. Initially, the bouquet was classic aged Bordeaux -- old leather, pencil shavings, tobacco, vestiges of tired tart red berries. I was very pleasantly surprised. But after 3 hours in the bottle, it fell apart, becoming meaty, bloody, rusty, and generally disjointed. 90 points initially; 84 points upon serving. Lesson learned: plan the evening around an old bottle, not the other way around.

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