Community Tasting Note

Rieslingfan wrote:

Saturday, August 8, 2015 - I had been waiting and waiting for a moment to open this. It stood upright in the cellar for nearly 2 years. Last night I decided that enough was enough, and opened it for dinner. Popped about 90 minutes before the meal, it immediately showed its backbone, needing all that 90 minutes and more for the fruit to flesh out and create a whole wine. When it did the wine was delicious, balanced and captivating. It showed nothing roasted, just ripe. Lots of cassis and blackberry fruit over evolving earth and wood notes. Nowhere close to mature, but it was very drinkable due to the volume of the fruit. I have no worries about leaving my other bottle for several years so that it can gain more maturity and evolved complexity. This was no quasi-California concoction. It was Bordeaux through and through.

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