Community Tasting Note

Jozefs wrote:

Sunday, April 30, 2006 - Opened 19:30. First glass 20. Agreable nose with vanilla, black fruit and its syrup, black coffee, herbs and some alcohol. Fairly biting tannins on the palate, but also black fruits, herbs, a small lactic touch, spices ... The tannins are dominating however. Some burning alcohol in the fairly long aftertaste. I'll put it away until tomorrow.
Next day (evening): The nose has closed down; there's a noticeable green element to it (paprika?). The palate remains tannic, with a lactic element and not much fruit shining through. The alcohol has subsided somewhat. I'm even less impressed then yesterday. I'll put the rest away until tomorrow.
Third day (evening): Not much movement in positive sense; the acidity is now more pronounced. We'll see tomoorw.
Fourth day (evening): Phew, did DID need its time. The nose has finally opened up a bit, with nice black and red fruit, fruit syrup, graffite, coffee, herbs... Very classical nose. The palate is still a bit weedy, but the fruit is now shining through more; still fairly tanninc and acidic though. Stilll difficult to drink, but hopefully this will integrate and balance out if given A LOT of bottle ageing. For now the nose is much more promising than the palate.
Sixth day (evening): I left about a big glass in the bottle and put it away for two days in the fridge, just closed with a cork. Amazing... now we are talking. The wine has blossomed into a balanced, structured, fruity, classy Bordeaux, without a trace of oxidation (and this after six days). While this was a 89 point way on day one to five, this now clearly merits at least 93 if not more. But... it'll need a lot of bottle ageing, or extended decanting (several hours).

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