Community Tasting Note

sawira wrote:

Wednesday, May 12, 2010 - Over the hill. Perfect cork, but there's a tint of murky root beer in its coloration. Too bad. It's from a batch of other perfectly stored bottles, but this one has given up the ghost it looks like. I'll wait awhile to see if this blows off, I've experienced stranger things, believe me. If no other follow up notes, this one is gone.
Next night: Okay this isn't a flawed bottle, or completely gone, but it's still seriously on the downhill slope and a rarity, for me at least, in that it's a Ridge wine that was probably at its best at age 10 instead of 20. Murky mulberry color, with some ambering of the rim. The seriously bad funk blew off and now it's just kind of a muted, clean, uninteresting stewed fruit. The palate is also kind of muted, faded, clean, but vacant. There's fruit still, and tannins, with all the components, but it's just OLD. If I've alluded to female analogies to describe wines lately, this is a saggy old grandma. Not mean spirited, just Alzheimer's ridden, staring at the TV, her better days behind her with barely a trace. Was probably a mid-eighties wine in it's heyday. Bye, Grandma.

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