Community Tasting Note

careyd wrote:

Monday, March 19, 2007 - Color: purple paint! Dark inky purple. it is unfiltered but being so young really isn't throwing sediment (yet anyway). Nose of rose petals and red fruits, a little smoke, a little tiny way-back there whiff of leather. On the palate: On the 30-sec opened bottle, Cherry, Black cherry, black licorice, black currant, and some oak. Full-bodied mouthfeel, lively acidity, a mid-palate of leather, and a dry tannic finish, which keeps the fruit coming. The tannins are firm but have 'round edges'. Actually, 'round' is a good description of this wine. Update: The wine opened up beautifully with 2-3 hours of air. Wow, it is now 'really round' more jammy, and the acidity has mellowed and integrated along with the tannins. Basically, the wine has come together. This is a young wine that just needed some air! I am raising the score from 89 to 90 based on this. Looking over my notes of the non-reserva version of this wine, my memory of it seemed a little more jammy. It's hard to draw comparisons without having them side-by-side but this one seems a little more complex and a tad less fruit-forward but really, they are very similar wines. For the price difference I think I prefer the non-reserva (black label) to this reserva (white label). Both are very nice.

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