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Wednesday, November 26, 2014 - I'm going to do two reviews here for the same bottle of wine. The first is PnP and the second is the second night.

PnP: A disappointment. I'd had a couple of bottles a year or so ago and did not write public tasting notes, but the wine was really nice (probably "upper 80s" maybe 90 in points). Now it's quite grape-y, simple, and too tart, though it does hang on to some floral notes and minerality.

2nd Night: The remaining ~half bottle was suctioned and refrigerated. After allowing the temperature to come up this remainder was consumed. It was a different wine from the first night. The acid and tartness were pleasant. The orchard fruit - lemon, apple - and flower blossom notes opened up and it showed a pronounced minerality. Really enjoyable.

For whatever reason - perhaps it's a fragile wine and my decent, but not ideal storage conditions gave it problems - the wine on PnP was not worthy of the winery nor price point. The overwhelming acid may have been partially addressed by suctioning. Interestingly, a Tablas Creek blog post recently warned against suctioning wine, because it can draw out CO2, increasing pH and causing the wine to taste flat. Well, in this case that may have been what the doctor ordered.
(http://tablascreek.typepad.com/tablas/2014/11/worried-about-preserving-an-opened-bottle-just-stay-cool.html)

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