Community Tasting Note

sehill Likes this wine:

Wednesday, December 21, 2011 - Decanted and poured about a half hour later, this wine shows a number of distinct stages during its airing. Initially the bouquet shows red fruits, spice and earth notes. Airing brings out a darker personality with black fruits, spice, mocha, tobacco, tar with earth, raisin and port like notes in the background. Fortunately, the raisin and port notes never dominate and do not overwhelm the palate. The medium to full bodied palate has developed since the last tasting and the wines continue to exhibit balance with enough fruit to off set the tannins and acidity. This wine will continue to drink well as long as the raisin and port are held in check. Not sure is this will benefit from additional bottle age. This does drink well now with decanting.

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