Community Tasting Note

z_willus_d wrote:

Friday, January 9, 2009 - 1+ hr decant in a cold room; If Pinot wines were to come in three levels of darkness, the color of this would be of the 2nd. NOSE- medium intensity; light cherry, bramble, skillet smoke, baking spices, orange-zest, bathroom deodorant spray. PALATE- comfortable mouthfeel soothing my tongue, which I burnt on a too hot pizza slice earlier. Sour cherry flavors are dominating throughout with all the components mentioned in the bouquet showing at varying lesser degrees. A middling level of flavor intensity in this wine; tannins really not showing much at all, or they are extremely thinned out and integrated at this point. The finish is in keeping with the rest of this wine, middle of the road in length and complexity, tangy though; get a lot of the oranginess (and a bit of alcohol) at the end there too. Acid balance is a little tilted to the high side. Not as plush and elegant as I recall of the last bottle I tasted. Ho hum, but still a fair value for Pinot at this time.

3-days later after this sat in my garage with a half-sucked vacu-cork, and this wine is impressing the socks off me now. Huge, complex nose / huge complex palate. Almost like a different wine or a super-amped version of the original; huge, juicy and delicious mid-palate. Orange-peel, interesting funk aspects (like a semi-rotten apple, but good), bacon-smoke, BBQ, cinnamon and spices, and a much longer more intense finish with whole cranberry sauce showing there. Great balance and focus. This breaches 90 points on day3. (I marked it at 86 after 1hr decant on day1.) What was it? The long slow decant in my garage?

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