Community Tasting Note

Paul S wrote:

Monday, January 14, 2013 - Dim Sum Club at Paradise Pavilion (Pavilion Paradise, MBFC): Third time I have had this, with the last bottle coming almost 3 years ago. This bottle was quite unrecognisable from the previous two I had though. If anything, this seemed a bit tighter, a bit leaner. Still pretty good though. It had a very Napa nose, with sweet tobacco and cigarette smoke drifting about a core of sunny aromas of ripe blackberries and cassis, even sweet strawberries, with a touch of flowers and a nice cut of cedar wood and mint pulling out at the rear of the bouquet. Pretty nice. The palate showed a nice, rich attack, with cassis and blackberries at the fore. It leaned out and tightened up quite noticeably past the midpalate though, to show a spine of clean acidity and fine tannins. I liked the feel on this wine, it was nicely spare and elegant, with very cool, clear feel in spite of a sweet ripeness to its fruit expression that spoke of the new world. A nicely transparent wine I would say, just finishing a little on the short side. All in all though, very pleasant. I would be interested to try one in a couple of years to see where these are going. My feel is that they may have shut down a little, and will probably come good in say 3-4 years time.

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