Monday, March 26, 2012 - Took this one out to dinner..first mistake, as its so wound up it never really got to the sweet spot for drinking..even after a couple of hours in the bottle/glass. But you can tell its was starting to give up subtleties to the open air towards the end..that said, it was a medium bodied wine with all the usual Syrah suspects on the nose, not a over powering wine, very northern Rhone in style.
I'm sure this will get better with age climbing the point scale as well.
I would hold off drinking until 2013, and then pop another!!