Community Tasting Note

Mr.Overhill wrote:

Tuesday, April 6, 2010 - Pop and pour in a hot spring evening. If I could rate this wine solely on the nose I would go at least a 95, but hey, that's why the nose gets its own scoring portion, ya know? In one word, I would say RESTRAINED, which is the last thing I expected from this cab/syrah blend (maybe it's the cab that is holding back the usual K syrah power). The nose is not just explosive, but it's very complicated - an infusion of sweet black cherries, bittersweet chocolate and even some dark leather and tar (the leather especially carries in the background on the tongue, along with some nice smoked porkbelly flavors) that both resounds from the glass and does its best to fill out the room around the glass. The initial flavor profile are blueberry pancakes and butter, with that underlying leather and bacon. The tannins don't overpower, instead they have a very restrained (there's that descriptor again) presence, more like plush denim than anything else. I can dig that profile, especially for a wine that's only been in bottle for six months or so. It's the midpalate and the finish that both vex and worry me - they aren't the requisite components that this wine needs right now to push is into the mid 90s, and I think that's the cab that's causing for this letdown. I'm going to try this again on day two and see if some more time in a closed bottle does something to open up the wine. But I think that in 2-3 years this wine will be much improved, it's just not this wine's time at the present.

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