Community Tasting Note

graemeg wrote:

Monday, February 9, 2015 - NobleRottersSydney - top 86 Bdx (mostly) with Grange (360 Bar & Dining, Sydney): {cork, 13%} (Gordon) This is the third of Gordon’s bottles I’ve shared in the last half-dozen years, and this completely consistent experience confirms my judgement of this as Jederman, a sort of Beethoven’s Ninth among wines. I can’t imagine any wine-lover, whatever their prejudices, not swooning at this offering. It has a perfect nose of currants, graphite, pepper and spice, cedar, tobacco…the list goes on. The palate has a spicy freshness to it; seems both youthful and aging at the same time; open and seductive yet still riding on a structure of medium/high dusty tannins, medium/full-bodied weight; there’s plenty of structure here, make no mistake. The finish lasts forever in the mouth and for a lifetime in the mind. As close to faultless as any wine could be. I don’t think it will last as long as either of the wines which flanked it tonight – the 86 Lafite & Mouton – but it has a luminous beauty which they will never possess. Drink up and give grateful thanks for the experience.

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