Community Tasting Note

Cailles wrote:

Thursday, December 6, 2018 - I expected the worst when the cork crumbled despite gently removing it with a blade corkscrew. But no problem here: the wine was singing. Great aromatic profile (tertiary & fruit) + depth + precision + elegance + harmony + length + tension - everything is there and quite perfect. This wine is still going strong - at least for well kept bottles. My and the groups WOTN. A humbling experience to taste this beauty.

TN: A dream nose (although it needed some time in the glass to get there) which boasts aromas of leather, tobacco, sous bois, wet forest floor, black truffles, mushrooms, black currant and blueberries. Nice intensity, nicely balanced and full of life. Same aromatics on the palate with some additional mineral notes of graphite and pencil shavings and some cedar wood. With time all tertiary aromas became more intense and drifted into the truffles spectrum (which for me is the best there is) and the fruit gained too. The structural frame is impeccable with fully integrated tannins and a lively acidity. Long finish and everything is in perfect harmony. A „wow“ wine.

Decanting: PnPed, then put into a decanter and consumed over three plus hours. Good from the start but it definitely improved two or three notches with time in the glass. This particular bottle would have needed one or two hours in the decanter.

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