Community Tasting Note

aagrawal wrote:

Thursday, August 29, 2013 - Coravin 8/29/13. Medium ruby color with little bricking; prominent nose with red fruit, bright, slight earth with a fairly strong decomposing quality (little too much for me, and I like this stuff); palate has medium body, integrated tannins still providing structure, great midpalate acidity, still enough fruit to balance out the structure; finish is medium length, slightly short on fruit compared to residual tannins. A fairly decent wine, but doesn't live up to its reputation or price point so I would pass on buying. I like it slightly less now than at my last trial in 2011, and I would drink up soon as it's not likely to improve. 90-
Coravin 8/30/13: Spot-on exactly like yesterday, starting at first pop-and-pour state and progressing through the exact same decomposing fruit phases over 30-60 minutes. Very exciting, since usually wines have degraded at least a bit by day 2. Still 1/2 bottle remaining.
9/10/13: Half bottle remaining when opened. Still nice, but not exactly the same. Not clearly oxidized, but doesn't have the funk that it did earlier and didn't develop in the same way. Difficult to assess what kind of change the Coravin had, but there appears to have been at least a small change. Will need to run some experiments with double bottles so that I can taste blind side by side.

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