Community Tasting Note

NoahCap wrote:

Monday, February 1, 2021 - Just looking at the reviews this wine has gotten shows how high quality it is. Without a doubt, it is monumental. Deep gold in color and visibly viscous upon swirling the glass. The nose is waxy, chalky, earthy, and honeyed. The wine fills the mouth with a rich, creamy, almost chewy texture with a finish that lasts and lasts. The flavors are so complex, they actually remind me a bit of a Gravner amphora-aged orange wine; the flavors are different but there is a common complexity, length of finish, uniqueness that is difficult to describe.

I wish I could have had this wine 5 years ago. The cork was perfectly intact, and the wine was in great shape, but it definitely tasted advanced. Not in a bad way, as I typically enjoy the nutty, toasty, waxy flavors that come with age, but I think I would have preferred it just a touch more youthful. My non-wine enthusiast dining partner didn't like it; she said it was "like drinking liquor". While I don't necessarily agree with that assessment, I can see why she said it- the fruit was entirely gone. A wine of such high quality has many beautiful expressions over its lifetime, but my favorite is the middle ground, when the fruits of youth are balanced by some of the tertiary flavors that come with age, this was just a bit more towards the advanced side than I prefer. Overall, though, beautiful wine.

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