Community Tasting Note

msuwine wrote:

Monday, September 12, 2022 - This wine is rich and pungent - not in a fruity, boozy, juicy sense, but in an intense, tannic, briar-patch kind of way that makes me think this 100% Cabernet is just a little pissed off at the moment (or, perhaps, forevermore). Although my hunch is that this is a phase, there's no doubt this wine currently lacks the integration and polish of five years ago (10/17 - 97 points). This wine is not fading away, but where exactly it's slouching (and on what timetable) - I dunno. Adolescence has its own timetable.

Dark purple in color and full in body, the wine offers aromas of cocoa powder, boysenberry seeds, graphite, and oregano. The flavors soften with a few hours of air, but they still seem prickly, with notes of blackberry, Turkish coffee, cocoa beans, and gravel, with a tannic and dense finish. 14.7% alcohol. In the soft and agreeable 2012 vintage, this is the smart a-- in the back of the class - I'm betting he'll turn out OK, but it won't be until 2025 or later. Decant three hours if drinking now. 94 at the moment.

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