Community Tasting Note

merrimacga wrote:

Thursday, November 18, 2010 - Excellent bottle with good ullage. Uncorked at home at 10:30am. Cork took two tries and crumbled on removal but miraculously none of it fell in wine. Sampled: pale amber color, nose and taste like an excellent tawny port but a bit hot alcohol and a bit rough. Let bottle settle until 1:30pm. Used steel filter and silver funnel to place in decanter, leaving dregs in bottle. Decanted until 5:30pm. Sampled again: dark amber brown color, slightly more subtle nose, and smoother taste but still fairly hot alcohol. Rinsed and dried bottle then, again using the filter and funnel, replaced wine back into bottle and stoppered for transport to the tasting. Removed stopper and let stand until pour at 8:15pm. In glass: pretty deep red with just a touch of purple and brown; soft notes of raisin, alcohol, almonds, oak, and fig on the nose; lovely taste of softer but still very warm alcohol, still like a fine tawny port but far more refined and very elegant, balanced, harmonious, perfect. Shared with 11 others (1-ounce pours) at close of tasting and rave reviews from all. Had enough left over for the seconds requested and to take home roughly quarter bottle. All who had it with the pumpkin pie agreed it was an excellent pairing.

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