Community Tasting Note

Cailles wrote:

Monday, August 1, 2022 - 5x 1964 red, 2x Sherry: Five 1964 reds. All tasted blind. Rioja for the win! The 1964 Rioja vintage is just magical. Clear winner and WOTN, the Rioja Alta Ardanza Reserva Especial (98 pts). Highly complex, ever changing, clean and precise, very Burgundian. Next Angelus (95 pts), perfectly mature, elegant, pure Bordeaux missing just a bit more substance for an even higher rating. Third, CVNE Vina Real Reserva Especial (94 pts) a bit past its peak with hyper intense and intriguing coffee/malty and nutty notes. Finally, two solid Burgundies. Louis Remy Chambertin (92 pts) showed very young, with almost new world-like, ripe fruit and sweetness which was a bit perplexing. The Leroy d’Auvenay (90 pts) had a good structure but was not harmonious and clean enough.

TN: Wonderful intense nose. Superb, right from the go. Jumping out of the glass. On the palate bright red fruit, some cola notes, stems, beautiful minerality. Superb structure, so fine, so round, wonderful long finish. With time blue fruit, some toasty notes. Ever so slightly changing. Wow. Tasting it blind I and most others were convinced that this must be a Burgundy. This bottle was lightyears ahead of a bottle of the same lot a year ago in almost every category (complexity, precision, expressiveness, harmony).

Decanting: Double decanted 2 hours before consumption. Followed over two more hours. Right after opening this was a bit shy. In the two hours after double decanting the bottle the wine gained a lot of substance, concentration and become so much more harmonious. It needed air.

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