Community Tasting Note

forceberry wrote:

Saturday, January 9, 2016 - Dense, fully opaque and quite extracted dark cherry red color. The nose feels dark-toned, rich and quite sweet-toned with aromas of juicy dark berries, some sanguine iron tones, a little bit of alcohol, light vanilla character, a little bit of jammy red fruit and a touch of coffee chocolate. The wine feels ripe, round and gentle on the palate with mouthfillingly full body and rich, concentrated flavors of sweet dark fruits, sunny plummy fruit, licorice, some blackcurrant tones, a little bit of sweet mocha oak and toasty spice, light jammy red-toned fruits and a hint of extracted woody bitterness. The wine is lacking in structure even as the acidity feels medium-to-moderately high as the tannins typical of Tannat feel almost nonexistent - they lend some chewy textural feel, but they lack the vital sense of grip completely. The finish is sweet-toned, long and quite oaky with flavors of toasty oak spice, cacao nibs, plummy fruits, some extracted woody bitterness and a hint of pruney fruit. The high alcohol lends some noticeable sense of warmth to the aftertaste.

A very round, soft and generic new world red with no varietal character whatsoever - I would've thunk this was a Chilean Merlot or something along those lines had it been served blind. Seems like it has developed a little bit in 5 years, but still it hasn't turned any more complex or interesting. A very dull and predictable example of mass-produced plonk, yawn.

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