Community Tasting Note

dchain wrote:

Friday, August 24, 2012 - Zachys bottle from a mixed 82 lot bought 2 years ago. Into the neck level. Cork came out cleanly and only about 1/3 wine soaked. After pouring a snifter sample decided there was no need to decant as it was open and ready and I could not see any real sediment in the bottle. Still bright ruby in colour and remarkably youthful. Immediate nose of leather, cedar, blackberry/rasberry/kirsh- very ripe and heathy fruit. Acidity is barely noticable and all the tannins are now completely intergrated. Tastes as it smells which is generally unusual in most Bordeaux wines unless they are right at their perfect window of drinking. Sweet fruit, with dark cherry, exotic leather and spices on the palate. Wonderfully well rounded and long. To me the Trot has always outperformed Petrus 82. No doubt this may be heresy to some but I have had Petrus 82 six times from impecable sources and have always been underwhelmed by the Petrus. A wine drunk with black truffle pasta and then roast duck breast was the perfect match, together with my perfect spouse with whom we were celebrating our 10th anniversary.

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