Community Tasting Note

Eric wrote:

Wednesday, November 21, 2007 - A decadent 30th birthday for Justin Wells (Sammamish, WA): A birth-year wine for Justin. We had little expectation for this, and upon initial decanting this was all horse and brett without much other nuance. However, this unfolded beautifully for 3-4 hours and held its own against a shockingly good lineup of Bordeaux. Great notes of graphite emerged from the horse and continued onto the palate with beautiful minerality. There is a really sweet, Napa core to the fruit, but at ~13% this was so at home with the Bordeaux, nothing like today's typical California Cabernet. Relative to the Bordeaux consumed next to it, this didn't offer the persistence and depth of palate. Still this was just outstanding, pure, mature Cabernet. With time there are nice notes of mint and other green/vegetal flavors that I found quite pleasing. Justin mentioned "celery seed".

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