Community Tasting Note

Brucie69 wrote:

Sunday, October 16, 2022 - I find myself struggling with many Napa wines, which while rich and deep, and with all the winemaking bells and whistles applied, to my mind still struggle to provide the balance and complexity that warrant their steep price tag.

Well this does. Don’t get me wrong it’s still firmly in the hedonist camp with the fruit and oak ramped up to 11, but there’s a lot going on and the secondarily characteristics really help round this out to something extremely tasty.

On the nose, black fruits, vanilla, smoke and roast, Asian spices and a palpable hit of alcohol fumes.

On the palate the blackberry, vanilla and roasted spices carry through but intermingled is a lovely milk and mint chocolate mid palate that really brings it together into a sumptuous mouthful with a acidic kick at the end to bring it back into balance

Based on this bottle it’s holding up nicely but with the alcohol on the nose and the firm acidity on the finish I wouldn’t wait and hold. But then as mentioned I’m very far from a Napa expert so take my advice in this context.

(Had with the recipe in the book, but my better half took away the leftovers before I could take a photo. But anyway the wine is too rich for this dish. It needs a big piece of steak to do it justice)

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