Community Tasting Note

walkerjfw wrote:

Tuesday, February 16, 2016 - Lunch at Solage with Tom/Juan/Jamie to kick off PNV week. Amazing food and excellent wines...drank along with a 2012 Dana Sauvignon Blanc, 95 Dominus, 13 Realm Houyi and Petit Syrah from Jamie (not named...) This was a generous contribution from Tom....Lower neck fill on this bottle, cork came out clean, very well stored. Drank this over a couple hours during an extended and hedonistic lunch...

Pale garnet color, bricking at the edges. Took some time to open, tight when opened with mostly barnyard/brett. Fruits were muted red cherry...After 30+ minutes the wine started to wake up showing dusted red cherry, eucalyptus, bay leaf, earth, "tomato paste". After about 90 minutes a cedar and caramel/burnt sugar started to show. Texture was soft, nuanced medium finish.

This is past its peak but still very nice to drink. Well stored bottles should hold at this level, but I would drink soon if given the chance. Integrated and elegant, its nice to see what a well stored bottles from that era has become. A decant is a must, the wine needs time to open...the last sips of this were showing the most complexity.

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