Community Tasting Note

nzinkgraf wrote:

Friday, September 16, 2011 - Here's the thought. Open this today, Friday, for a dinner this coming Thursday. Drink off a half glass and then let it ride out til then. I hope I can stay away from this all week. At the cork pull, intense out the gate. Peach and nectarine. Cinnamon and honey. A really ripe, dessert-y feel to the aromas. Coconut. Medium to medium- gold color. Palate gives way first to a more saline quality, a citrus zest. Really firm weight and acid. A little hazelnut on the finish, but the mid-palate is packed with richness and fruit, no heat, not even every textured right now. Real big and soft mouthfeel. Oddly...no 'legs' on this wine, instead it's like a 360degree curtain falling slowly inside my glass. Slowly, like the tide at le mont st. michele. Slowly, creeps down the glass.
By day three any sweet fruit elements give way for a more wool-y Chenin aspect. The 'iceberg' of Bucci.

DAY6. About 4oz from full, in the fridge the last 6 days. Aromas of honey and grape-type fruit. A ripeness showing, intense aromas. Wow the palate has really caught back on again. Nectarine and peach encore performance, back to the day 1 impression, but with a red apple skin note, and some cotton candy, that really gets the palate going again. Almond sugar cookie. Damn.
DAY7, lots of red apple skins and sugar cookie, making me think of full bore champagne.
DAY10 and the aromas are just outstanding. still firm on the red apple skin and sugar cookie. thoughts back on to the botrytis, apricot and nectarine aromas. palate is really holding its own. such a confident mouth-feel with a slight aspect of tannin. the almond note really rides here, but in that texture, this wine is just a great indication on day 10 of what this wine will do in my cellar. try and stay away from these as long as possible. XO.

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