Community Tasting Note

aagrawal wrote:

Monday, January 13, 2014 - Coravin 1/13/14: Medium ruby with only a hint of bricking; nose has nice tertiary components, slight vegetal, cherry, cedar; palate is medium-full bodied, certainly has an austere quality, structured tannins with only very slight drying, fruits provide a core but are not prominent, simpler on the palate than on the nose; finish is clean, fresh, not much fruit or flavor. An interesting intellectual bordeaux that fits the St. Estephe austere stereotype, perhaps less viscerally enjoyable than I might like but interesting nonetheless and a good bottle of bordeaux for the price ($20 on release, $40 now, overpriced at $60). 89
Coravin 2/9/14: Zalto universal vs. Bordeaux. With this more subtle wine, it shows better in the universal glass. The nose gets a little lost in the much larger bordeaux glass. If this was a larger, more aromatic bordeaux, then perhaps the bordeaux glass would be better. Palate is equivalent. Compared to first note, more drying on the palate, but no additional hints of oxidation. 88
Update: With air, back to my first notes and showing more fruit, less drying. Nice. 89.

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