Community Tasting Note

Derek Darth Taster wrote:

Sunday, July 13, 2014 - Popped and poured. My birthday wine.
Appearance is cloudy with lots of fine sediments (got shaken up during the car ride). Medium intensity. Garnet colour. Legs.
Nose is clean, medium intensity, with aromas of earth, leather, sour red cherries. Developed.
On the palate, dry, medium- acidity, medium+ alcohol, melt-in-your-mouth medium- tannins, medium+ body. Medium flavor intensity, with flavours of earth, leather, sour red cherries. Medium finish.
Very good quality Brunello that has managed to survive 31 years with reasonably good intensity.
Amazingly, on Day 2 after slow-oxygenation in chilled bottle, it developed some chocolaty notes and more sweetness on the palate. I guess the Francois Audouze theory of slow-oxygenation in bottle for very old wines to wake them up does have some merit.

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