Community Tasting Note

sawira wrote:

Tuesday, December 30, 2008 - Pop and pour. Brilliant dark ruby red. Slight bricking. Hesitant nose at first. Let sit an hour or so in the glass. Then classic tobacco, incense, fruitcake, plum, grape confit. Very thin, dry, dark bitter chocolate oriented palate gives way over time to a behemouth of very dry, rich, dark fruit-oriented incredible array of flavors - over-ripe almost cooked currants and plums, cedar, spicebox, smoke, graphite, fruitcake. Very, very, dry. Depth, power and richness allied with great complexity and class. As noted below, much better with time, air and warmth. At peak now. This bottle beginning to oxidize at about 4 hours, but not really at peak drinking until about the 2.5 hour mark. A 61 Haut Brion of a Cab.

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