2019 Force Majeure Syrah Force Majeure Vineyard Red Mountain
Community Tasting Note
Musinus wrote:
92 Points
Friday, February 10, 2023 - Aromas reflecting a tarte of cherries, plums, roasted sweet beets and vanilla. Dense, rich, solid mouth feel. A melange of red fruits, spice and pepper are noted on the palate but there’s no escaping the 14.7% alcohol that is ever-present. Older bottles I’ve tasted demonstrate how intrusive the high alcohol becomes with bottle age.
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Comment posted by Scotty56:
2/11/2023 10:05:00 AM - Reading through your other reviews it seems pretty apparent you don’t like anything above 13% abv.
Comment posted by Musinus:
2/11/2023 11:22:00 AM - After opening numerous bottles of wine 10 years of age and older, I've come to realize how just a few percent alcohol content in excess of 13% can impact and overwhelm a wine. I wish I had not wasted so much money on the high alcohol content wine that prevailed earlier this millennium. These wines have aged poorly, with the alcohol predominating over all else, and the majority end up being poured down the drain. Having spent hundreds of $$$ per bottle on many, many cases of these wines, I am sounding an alarm so that others don't find themselves in a similar predicament.