Community Tasting Note

Faryan wrote:

Friday, June 25, 2010 - Friday Night Dinner (Chez Dave & Ali): Very interesting example of a wine, as it opens up pretty close to buried with overtones of wet sous bois pretty much dominating the nose, but with some more time in glass, it begins to climb out of the grave as the nose focuses a bit and portends light hints of pinot strawberry and saddle leather. On the palate, there is still some heavy tannins which shows that the maturation of all elements in a wine (phenolic ripeness, tannic structure, acidic backbone) is more of a balancing act than we give credit to vignerons. This reminds one of 86 BDX in that the phenolic ripeness may be overshadowed by the tannins. As a caveat sidenote, this wine is a perfect example as to how older wine can fool the drinker between bdx and burgundy. I've had old BDX in comperable states that show the same faintness of fruit and are veritably indistinguishable. I think in 10 years this wine may be there, but for now there is still a litheness to the strawberry component which says Burg. Could have potentially benefited from an Audouze.

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