Community Tasting Note

z_willus_d wrote:

Monday, July 19, 2010 - Cork bottom was soaked and one side showed wine seepage half-way up. 2hr decant @70F. COLOR- dark and dirty burgundy with a hint of browning. NOSE- salty caramel or peanut butter toffee, coffee grinds in vermiculture, melted down black liquorish, cedar and backyard dirt on a summer evening (w/ creosote from the grill). PALATE- very smooth, perhaps abutting elegant, yet seeming dull on the fore-palate; grows more grabbing if you let it touch the cheeks. There's a very good spine of acid that picks up along with the flavor on the medium+ length, elegant finish. This wine has such an interesting flavor profile with its tar and liquorish and earth and bloody meats and best of all coffee/toffee cream -- it makes one want to gulp down more to pick-up the flavors. If I had to rate this wine in order of what I like about it best to least, the roll would read: Nose, finish, balance, flavor profile, complexity, mouthfeel, drinkability (a Bordeaux thing), [switching over to the less positive] entry presence, concentration, tannins and structure for long term aging. So, while those last three points keep my score tamped some, I can't get away from how completely great this wine is in all those other ways I've listed. Thanks Rob for the recommendation.

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