Community Tasting Note

Matt.H Likes this wine:

Monday, June 19, 2023 - Dark ruby/garnet with hints of tar on the fairly subdued nose. Initial taste shows a palate dominated by fierce acidity and drying tannins with just a few hints of black fruit somewhere underneath.

Decanted for 3 1/2 hours which opened it up. The high acidity and powerful tannins are still there, but are balanced out to some extent by sweet black cherry fruit with some tar and liquorice/star anise coming through.

At this stage this is a bit of a beast of a wine, powerful, full-bodied and requiring suitably robust food - in our case slow cooked duck legs, which were a great match.

While it is just about approachable at this stage, another 5-10 years would allow it to really settle and I'm sure it would start to develop some really interesting tertiary complexity.

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