Community Tasting Note

Faryan wrote:

Monday, August 6, 2007 - I decanted for 4.5 hours, consumed over dinner and with the oscars (2 hours). Left one glass for another 24 hours for a final take. Here's my impression:

A voluptuous nose. Absolutely breathtaking. Covering presence of tar, with soft and shy notes of eucalyptus and buried fruit. The nose intoxicated my nostrils until I got a headache! The wine contacts the palette with silky eucalyptus and cassis but quickly stiffens into the mid-palette. The direction of the wine was shocking to me, absolutely resolved...The tannic backbone really gets you towards the finish and the heat/acidity is definitely overriding the hidden black fruits and secondary cassis profiles that were nuanced on the front. The glass that I have consumed 24 hours later has relinquished much of that heat and the fruit is more explosive than ever...The seething tinge of acidity finishes potently, more potently than many drinkers would choose to relish. I don't have much experience with tasting the same wines over long periods of time (hey I'm only 21) so I can't give a drinking window, but rudimentary I will say it needs years

95+ with a potential, if the acidity and heat integrates and the fruit comes to the table more inclusively, that this wine could yeild that 98 that Parker alluded to.

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