Community Tasting Note

Terroirist wrote:

Tuesday, January 1, 2008 - Bottle was a B-day present from Bone. She said she bought it at the local liquour store (purchased 12/2006), don't know how it was kept up 'till then. When I got it, I layed it down for an entire year and stood it up a few days before New Year's. I took no formal notes, too busy enjoying the evening. Decanted with some visible sediment, poured a taste right away. A little bricking on the edges and a GREAT funk going on. Bone did NOT like the funk (this is the oldest bottle we have drunk so far) but I loved it. She said it was corked cuz it smelled like wet cardboard (we had just opened a bottle of 2006 white Bordeaux only to find a moldy cork and a bottle of 'vinegar') so she was VERY suspect of this one. I said this is what good fermented grape juice probably smells like after being bottled up close to a decade - and went for a BIG sip. Fantastic, plenty of acidity, and fruit, tiny tiny bit of tannin- a great wine. My buddie came over a little later and I poured him a glass, he hit the nail on the head when he said it smelled like a cidermill, it was like barnyard crossed with oxidizing apples, bingo! A great wine. Thanks Bone.

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