Community Tasting Note

HowardNZ wrote:

Sunday, March 9, 2014 - Pontet-Canet Vertical: Colour deep garnet, just beginning to soften at the rim. A lovely bouquet of bright red fruits, raspberries, red cherries, redcurrants, cassis, spice, tobacco and earth, with a savoury element and some autumn leaves. On palate, relatively primary and tight. Flavours of cherries, blackcurrants, blackberries, with spice and liquorice and a savoury element. Medium weight but with good concentration, power and length. Firm but relatively fine grained tannins, perhaps showing some evolution. Oak well integrated. Quite fresh and precise with reasonable acid balance. However, flat and tired. There was a lively debate about whether the awkwardness of this wine was due to it being shut down or prematurely evolved, with me thinking the former. Overall, disappointing. Perhaps it's just at a bad stage. I wouldn't open for 5 + years. 91, but later considered flawed, see above.

Alfred described this as "perhaps a bit overrated" but (what he thought would be) "the vintage of my life" (until he saw, in turn, the 2005, the 2009, then the 2010).

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