Community Tasting Note

timewithwine wrote:

Saturday, March 5, 2016 - Pouring from magnum as part of the run to celebrating our twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. The color on the initial pour is a deep cranberry. It continues to darken from there over the course of the next three hours. The core eventually shades a beef blood red. The nose is intense with plum, black cherry, blackberry and other black fruits. The story here is really about the cedar and graphite. Both dominate the wine from attack to finish. Somewhere in the middle licorice and mint race in and ride hard to the finish. The tannins remain big, and while not angular, they aren’t yet round and certainly are not resolved. The fruit will hold on this for several more years and the trajectory on this wine continues to arc up. A delicious wine that continues to show ample promise. A fair amount of sediment on the shoulder and also in the bottom of the bottle. 13% alc. With duck (Spousal Unit) and beef ribeye topped with garlic and cherry tomatoes (me). With former poster Michael Ross and his lovely spouse at Chez Foushee. Recommended , but leaning hard toward Highly Recommended.

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