Community Tasting Note

Goldstone wrote:

Thursday, December 30, 2010 - Dark but bright ruby red semi opaque colour. Nose is a very immediately attractive, really gorgeous and quite complex redcurrants, cedar wood, pencil lead, vanilla pods, with hints of damp earth and wet bracken at the back....integrated but still in the springtime of its life.. Palate is gorgeously soft and velvety but still very firm tannin together with deep, ripe blackberry fruit and some oak together with a quite pronounced but not unbalanced acidity. Tobacco leaf comes out as the predominant finale flavour. The elements are all really top class but are not yet quite fully integrated on the palate as they are on the nose.......I have no doubt it will get better over the next 3-5 years and could well reach its apogee in 7-10 years from now. This is a classic medium-bodied Claret so the length and resonance are enjoyable but not profound. It gets distinctly more inky and "young" with extended time in the glass/decanter, which tends to suggest a good longevity for this wine. Certainly, I've never before drank a Cantermerle close to this class. The particular year has stamped an extra class on this wine.

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