Community Tasting Note

ccn wrote:

Saturday, April 4, 2015 - Hard wine to score as it mixes great qualities with significant defects. Worth noting that I've experienced a lot of bottle variation with 2004s and while there's no indication that this was an atypical bottle, I can't rule out that possibility.

Orangey rim.

Immediately upon opening: noticeable '2004' character to the nose (whether you call that coccinelle/ladybird/ladybug taint or pyrazine). This faded over 2 hours to be a minor note of complexity and not unpleasant

Wine was at first short with metallic elements both nose and mouth. After 15 minutes the wine was at its best - sweetness, light red fruits, good length. I would have scored it 82 at that point.

After 60 minutes the hard/ metallic element started creeping back in to ultimately dominate by which time we abandoned the wine.

It seems to be declining based on my TN from 4 years ago. This was my last bottle but if I had any more I'd drink up.

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