Community Tasting Note

amred wrote:

Saturday, October 24, 2009 - This wine has been such an enigma, both for us and based on CT notes. Having not tried it since 2006, we took one to a BYOB dinner at La Belle Vie in Minneapolis. It was close to perfect. This wine has, for most people, including us, been very difficult in early years. One of our early bottles, and those of friends, were extremely harsh, tannic, and some found it (see CT notes) very gamy, horsey, whatever. We opened this and the nose was pure classic Bordeaux from the beginning...not a hint of gaminess. We decanted...the color was just beginning towards brick, but still very solid. On the nose, a classic Bordeaux...lead pencil, graphite, a bit of floral and sweet. In the mouth, a perfectly balanced, smooth, classic aged Bordeaux. Not a bit over the hill, many years to go, but now exceptionally accessible. Lots of mineral, cassis fruit, leather, tobacco, toast/graphite tones, very smooth and that unmistakable really first-rate Bordeaux. Could have asked for nothing more.

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