Community Tasting Note

RajivAyyangar wrote:

Monday, October 5, 2015 - Monday night blinds at Delectable (Delectable HQ): clear, dull, medium minus dark ruby out to a garnet rim, showing signs of age, medium viscosity
on the nose, signs of development, some bruised apple, medium plus intensity, clean, fruit flavors are red fruits--red cherry, red plum, slightly reductive leaning, some burnt rubber, faint bit of overripe cranberry, fair amount of fruit and secondaries, mushroom, damp compost, damp forest floor. No herbaceousness. There are florals in the dried roses dept. Citrus--dried orange peel. No inorganic earth.

on the palate: dry, medium bodied, medium+ alcohol (14%)[actually 12.5%], high acid (combo malic and tartric), red fruits, mushroom, wet forest floor, a little bit of oak treatment (well integrated fresh oak with age), this is slightly confected nature to the fruit so possible whole cluster, fruit is ripe

initial conclusion: new world wine with some age, pinot noir (acid profile, light color, reductive, red fruit), although it could also be gamay. Very tiny bit of oak, maybe just used oak. Low tannins

Pinot noir, Sonoma, CA, with some age (2005), good quality producer, $40-50

What else could it be? Could be Burgundy, Premier Cru from Nuits St George (2009)

discussion: This is old world. A weirdly disjointed pinot with ripe fruit and alcohol that sticks out. I should have called old world on this. If I'd paid attention to the burn of alcohol, I'd be able to distinguish disjointed alcohol from elevated alcohol. This is a very light wine with moderate alcohol that sticks out. A short finish might be another clue.

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