2011 Gemstone Estate Red
Community Tasting Note
Neecies Does not like this wine:
75 Points
Saturday, February 29, 2020 - Decanted an hour before dinner (lots of sediment) only to find plodding flavors drug down by heavy oak and low acid. We struggled thru a glass apiece and dumped the rest.
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Comment posted by Baron Slick:
4/4/2023 10:33:00 AM - Out of curiosity, to the extent that the second bottle you had was delightful, and given that the rest of user's scores reflect the performance of your second bottle, would it be fair to mark this up as a flawed bottle in lieu of such a low score?
Comment posted by Neecies:
4/4/2023 10:45:00 AM - Fair question. 1) all the other tasting notes were several years earlier than mine. 2) I didn't just have two bottles, I had three, and two out of three were lousy. I didn't write a TN on the first one, but referred to it as a 'dud' in the note I posted which was on bottle #2. 'Dud' would infer something very similar to bottle #3--unpleasantly below expectations but with no obvious technical flaws--not corked, not oxidative, just 'bleh!'. More like I got two of the last bottles from the bottom of a barrel. And that's not what I or any customer should be expected to call a flaw--it was just a poor bottle resulting from, one has to guess, a poor decision made in the winery. Based on that, my bottles deserved a low score.
Comment posted by Baron Slick:
4/6/2023 6:49:00 PM - I appreciate the reply. Very informative; thank you. What a bummer. It's odd because I just opened one last night and it was in the 92-93 range. I'm way behind on posting TN's so I'm hoping to get it into CT in the next month or so. I hope you have a better experience next time around. We really enjoyed ours. Cheers.
Comment posted by Neecies:
4/7/2023 11:53:00 AM - Yeah--sometimes there's just no way to make sense of a bad bottle! I just looked at your tasting notes--sounds like we have similar tastes, with emphasis on variety.