Community Tasting Note

Frank Murray III wrote:

Wednesday, January 27, 2021 - Wines Done Blind (Zoom!): This was served blind. There were lots of guesses as to what it was: Nebbiolo, Cab, etc. My guess was aged Cab, given the tobacco, cigar box aroma that the wine beautifully exhibits. Tangy, plummy, with creamy red berry that is alive, vibrant. I decided to not drink the entire 4 ounces, instead saving a few ounces to retry the following day. I really wanted to appreciate this wine, to give it the air and another context to taste it once more. There is no fade at all in the color, as it is showing what I'd deem to be a color more consistent with a much younger red wine. The aromatic persists from yesterday, and as one of our guys last night called it, an 'intoxicating' aroma. I agree. This wine is damn near 35 years old, and it's still frigging fresh. Yes, some of the spice box/tobacco note is into the palate, yet all that does is add more to the complexity and beauty. It has the same plummy, cedary, currant fruit, and while I typically don't get all that excited (well, not much at all) for older wines, this is a beauty. Still plenty of tannin and freshness here and I don't see why this can't go another decade, perhaps to the 40 year old mark? Really a treat to drink something like this.

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