Community Tasting Note

ikkaariainen wrote:

Thursday, August 27, 2009 - A very very pleasant surprise - enjoyed the first of 9 bottles last night with Kim for dinner with grilled NY strips and what an outstanding CA bordeaux blend this turned out to be. Decanted for over three hours, very dark wine, concentrated but surprisingly well balanced for as young a wine as an '06, very big and almost dusty with a great mouth feel and an almost explosive nose, pleasant aftertaste. Nose amazing and very aromatic with strong underlying oak and dark fruit and some vanilla and chocolate accents. Primary flavors included well balanced burnt oak, mocha, dark stone fruit and blueberry with a definite herbal accent developing later on the palate. This wine is entering a very reasonable drinking window now, improved a lot with the decant and has many years of cellaring left with anticipated continued improvement and overall improved balance. Too expensive to be any kind of a reasonable QPR but I really highly recommend this wine despite the price point, looking forward to tracking maturation of the other 8 bottles over the next 2 - 3 years.

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