Community Tasting Note

rocknroller wrote:

Wednesday, March 27, 2019 - Heidi's Redux: More Heavy Hitters (St. Genevieve, Mpls, MN): My apologies to Chablis28 for my note's tardiness. But, I do have to pay for this habit and sometimes work gets in the way :). Frankly, I'm not sure I can add anything more profound than Craig's note already so beautifully and accurately delineated. I carefully checked this with the Coravin vintage needle in the late afternoon to be sure it was ok. Well, the smile on my poker face would surely have given away that this was more than just intact and good - it was fantastic.

As an aside - I'm always really cautious when using the Coravin on these old bottles - even with the thinner vintage bottle needle -as I've had cases where the cork is loose enough that it can be dislodged and driven into the bottle. If you're not ready to drink it, that is a disaster. So I watch closely to see if the cork moves at all as I insert it and abort if so. I also used a tight sealing tape to seal the cork after removing the needle as the cork does not always reseal immediately.

Dark red color, 1.5cm transitionally bricked margin. Opened with a Durand, the cork was saturated about 90 percent, but still pretty solid. Drank a glass plus over 2 hours. I love this nose, it is filled with smoke, cigar ash, and minerals. But it doesn't stop there, there's lovely red fruits here and a dried flower, forest floor and leather perfume. As it evolves the pencil lead comes forth on both the palate and nose. The palate still really has pretty remarkable structure to it, the tannins are still there, but are silky and polished, this has medium body with red raspberry and cassis fruits, cigar ash, pencil lead, leather, beef blood. The palate really does take on that ethereal essence and I can't argue with Craig's score as the pleasure this brings is simply divine. My second and last bottle, both of which were wonderful. I feel awfully darn fortunate right now. 97 to 98pts.

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