Community Tasting Note

walkerjfw wrote:

Saturday, January 24, 2015 - At home with casual dinner, last bottle from this vintage. Discovered this wine at Bouchon several years ago. Drinking very differently today. Splash decanted this and drank over two hours.

Dark purple color, some cloudiness. Big dark fruit nose - herbs, garrigue, bacon fat, smoked meats. Palate has a blue/black profile, blackberry, blueberry, chocolate and earth. Nice balance in the palate between the fruit and savory flavors. Some prune/raisin about an hour in

Seems to be past its prime, may just have been this bottle but fruit was less present than I recall. More refined and leaner as its aged. Medium/long finish.

Based on other tasters length of decants I may not have given it time. It also may be this is an example of the reasons for the well known shift in style at Copain towards more more "balanced" wines. Still good, but based on this bottle I wouldn't give this as long a drinking arc as others

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