Community Tasting Note

z_willus_d wrote:

Sunday, January 4, 2009 - 2+ hr decant @58F. Dark red color; has a way of coating the glass sides on swirl with perfect evenness & symmetry. The nose seems to be hiding behind the covers in bed; it hints at purple flowers, wet stones, red currants, cassis, and field blackberries -- very nice but not intense. On the palate, this really shines; it's a monstrous Bordeaux and really attacks the palate front the first; heavy bodied without any "clunkiness." Wild blackberries dominate early on, then cassis commands in the middle where ultra juicy red currant / creme de cassis flavors advance in a super focused way that's really saying a lot to me about this vintage. After this, mouth-drying tannins rule the palate, bringing with them an accoutrement of very nice floral rose-petals, saddle-leather, and a large dose of blackberry syrup dead center on the back of the tongue. This is one of the better budget Bordeaux I've had in recent years, and I think it will certainly improve w/ some bottle-age, picking up additional complexities and hammering out some off-angle kinks to make for a more polished mouthfeel and improved refinement. The finish could be longer/stronger and is really the only thing holding this back from a higher score for me. Here's hoping that improves too. 89-90 pts now.

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