Community Tasting Note

emzee.mc wrote:

Tuesday, January 13, 2015 - The wine pours a ruby, tawny color with very long legs. Surprisingly for a wine this age, there is minimal bricking at the edges. The first thing that comes to mind is the concentration of the bouquet. On the nose is a focused, powerful yet elegant melange of soy sauce, floral notes, strawberries, truffles and burnished leather and sous bois. Great extraction. On the palate, the wine is unctuous and thick with a mineral backbone. The sharpness of alcohol and rustic tannins are still there. Definitely old school Bordeaux style. Flavors of soy sauce, preserved plums, kirsch, mint, blackberries and mushrooms come to the fore. Finish is of medium length, lasting around twenty seconds or so. The ending is quite complex with a tad of fat. I was surprised to find how clunky this wine seems to be despite the pedigree. In fact, it tastes more like an old and thoroughly extracted Napa cabernet rather than the second wine of a premier cru. Nevertheless, a pleasurable drink but the balance could have been better. Just shy of 90 as a result.

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