Community Tasting Note

Paul S wrote:

Friday, April 26, 2013 - My Birthday Celebration (Park Palace, Grand Park Hotel): We have had enough examples of this wine in recent months for quite a few on the table to blind-guess it correctly, but boy has it been consistently excellent. This bottle was no exception. The nose was richly expressive, with a veritable explosion of rose and violet flowers, ripe black fruited notes of blackberries, blueberries, brighter shades of red cherries, and a savoury smelling underlayer of earth and meat. With time some very Clos de Bèze inflections of exotic spice and talcum powder drifted out as well. Wow. Of the bottles we have had, the palate here was perhaps the most youthful, showy a lovely tension, with nervous acidity and fine grippy tannins running through its pure, lifted tones of dark cherries and berries. As with previous examples, this had a really plush richness and depth for 2001, but had a trim, litheness to it - flabless, as someone put it. Right at the finish, a slatey, minerally pull dragged the wine into a long, grippy tail. Wonderful stuff. Really enjoyable now. Yet on this evidence, a well-stored bottle of this wine can well go on growing for another 10 years or so.

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