Community Tasting Note

RajivAyyangar wrote:

Wednesday, July 1, 2015 - 2001: A Wine Odyssey — Berserker Offline @ The Palace (The Palace Steakhouse, SF): Summary:
Searing, painfully intense raw white pepper rotundone. Screaming high acid. Slight tones of cured meat emerged with air exposure. This needs more time.

Score: I can’t rate this - I couldn’t see past the rotundone.

Visual:
Clear, slightly dull (low lustre). Medium red, nearly opaque.

Nose:
Clean, elevated-intensity. Dominated by raw, saline white pepper. An insanely strong whiff of rotundone that I found physically painful. After a lot of time and air, some secondary tones emerged— lambic, floral, and Jamon Iberico. All the while I was struggling with the searing white pepper.

Palate:
Medium plus body, elevated alcohol [14%]. Savory and floral in the mouth, with tones of cured meat. Screaming high acid and solidly moderate tannins.
Youthful, primary, astringent. Needs more time.

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