Community Tasting Note

Paul S wrote:

Friday, October 31, 2014 - Welcome Home Peter! (Park Palace, Grand Park Hotel): 2 years down the road from the last bottle and this was clearly fading. It was still a charmer, but came across as clearly old and tiring, needing the pairing with a roast duck dish to lift it somewhat. The nose still had some lovely floral notes - we all to guessed Chambolle on that basis - but these were accompanied with slightly port-like dried fruit hints and slightly sauvage, meaty tones alongside a touch of minerality and fragrant little shades of spice. Still quite pretty, but with a good dose of funk thrown in. The palate was starting to thin slightly. The fresh acid spine on the wine stood out pretty clearly on the attack. Thankfully, this bloomed into some faint, but charming red cherry and raspberry notes n the midpalate (especially when paired with the duckd dish) and, past that, a haunting linger of lovely floral perfume alongside notes of orange peel and wood spice on a fading finish. This still had a real sense of purity and charm to it, but the tannins had gone, softened into a silken rustle, and it was only the acidity left to keep it on its toes. Enjoyable while it lasted, but really time to drink up.

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