Community Tasting Note

RajivAyyangar wrote:

Monday, April 18, 2016 - Monday Night Blinds (Home (Noe st)): (blind)
Slightly cloudy. moderately minus red, out to a garnet rim, with some signs of sediment, moderate tears.

nose: showing significant development, bitter apple core, browned apple core, sweet vanilla and toast from oak, savory tobacco and sweet tobacco, herbaceous quality to it--stewed possible green bell peppers but very developed so hard to tell.

palate: medium + body, elevated 13.5% alcohol, elevated acid, moderate minus tannins, very rounded, very developed, on the nose there's a very sweet, figgy note, also chocolate-covered blackcurrants. Change tannins to moderate (very developed). Finish is long (TKH note: is it really long? how many flavors can you get?). Lots of spice on the palate--cinnamon, nutmeg, baking spices, some freshly sanded wood.

conclusion: This is a touch one! no noticeable brett so could be a new world wine. With this amount of oak, acid, thinking this could be cabernet from california or modern style bordeaux.

Too lean / acidic to be a merlot based wine from California. Going between right bank bordeaux and an aged california cab. There's some intense sweetness and blackcurrant taking me to California Cab.

Final: cabernet from Napa from the 1990s…1993 Cali Cab. Good quality producer.

Paul Autard 1998 Chateauneuf-du-Pape.
Very weird. But I like it. Developed. Atypical though. A little tired. Drink now.
13.5%
8.5

Recent notes (not this particular vintage):
Composition : 70% Grenache 20% Syrah 10% Mourvèdre
Vinification : Tri de la vendange par le vendangeur, plus un autre tri avant un égrappage total, macération de 20 à 30 jours dans des cuves à pigeage.
Elevage : 12 mois en barriques.

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