Community Tasting Note

Badfish wrote:

Saturday, January 22, 2011 - Union des Grands Crus de Bordeaux 2008 Tasting (The Barker Hangar – Santa Monica, CA): Gorgeously elegant and complex on the nose with aromas of sweet flowers, poached pears and apples, spices, stone fruits, and minerals. The palate is simply amazing with satin texture, precise structure, and substantial fruit density. The flavors are novel and sublime with tremendous cinnamon spice thrust and a profound spine of graham cracker across the lingering mid palate. This is unreal in the mouth, I can't stress how unique and long the flavors are with an attractive stoney sweetness to the texture. One of the last wines I tasted, I had to go back for another pour as this was shocking in its quality, something I was not expecting from this vintage for Sauternes. Easily the class of the sweet wines and in the running for best of the tasting, I have to find some of this.

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