Community Tasting Note

Arch57 wrote:

Friday, December 31, 2010 - I decided that I needed a 10 year old wine for New Year's Eve and this was my only vintage 2000 wine left, with the rest of them wiped out due to the Y2K bug (just kidding but remember those days!!)
Opened and decanted this at 6:30pm and started sipping on this at 7:30 and it was a bit muted at first. I thought this lost some of the fleshiness since my last bottle 3 years ago. We nursed this bottle before, during and after dinner. It was classic mature Bordeaux with a dark garnet color and a bit of funk on the nose that I associate with the terroir of Bordeaux. It had a nice finish of dried raspberries that lasted 30+ seconds but my wife described it accurately saying the wine was "flat" and missing depth.
Still sniffing the remains of the glass and it is a typical mid-range Bordeaux but missing that knockout punch.

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