Community Tasting Note

psirah wrote:

Sunday, March 31, 2013 - So, I have been holding this for some time, and looking for the correct meal. Grilled rib eye with rosemary garlic roast potatoes? Check!

This was P-n-P over 3 hours consumed. The nose is red fruited, but the dominant feature here is smoke, like an islay scotch, which then moves on to a more vegetal tomato soup. Anyhow, on the palate the fruit wants to be the major player here, but the oak treatment just will not allow that to happen. While I appreciate the vanilla flavors from the wood, the wood tannins are still too huge and not integrated. There is an acerbic quality here that is also off-putting. Overall, this wine is obviously well made, with great new oak, and so New World in style. I just do not think it works here.

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