Community Tasting Note

rocknroller wrote:

Friday, May 14, 2021 - One of Those Big Birthdays (Margaux's Table, White Bear Lake, MN): Very dark red minus color with a 7mm transitional to clear margin. PNP, drank a glass over 90 minutes. Low shoulder fill with a fully saturated wet cork that released on just turning in the spindle. Like most of these older bottles this needed a few minutes to shake off the cobwebs. Definitely intact right off the bat, but steadily evolving in the glass. This is one of those revelatory wines that certainly demonstartes the durability and ageability of Bordeaux. One might naturally be worried about the the low shoulder fill or the wet cork, but this wine defies the odds and in my experience is not an outlyer. What a great wine, showing its ever changing colors. The nose is filled with saddle leather, earth and a touch of funk to start which slowly builds over 20 minutes into an amazing perfume of pencil lead, tar, soil, dried purple flowers, red currants, red cherry and mulch. The palate still is zinging with tart red fruits on a sleek medium body, cherry, dried forest floor, crushed blackberries, soil and minerals, round medium tannins and a long finish. This was in great shape, and an absolute joy to drink a birth year wine for this milestone bday. I don't think most would pick this out as 60 years old if drank blind - maybe 40, and this has got the stuffing to go for another 20 it would seem. My WOTN in a really, really strong group.

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