Community Tasting Note

Stefanos T. wrote:

Thursday, December 6, 2012 - I was holding this precious bottle for a better occasion but while tidying up my wine cooler I noticed that wine was entering the cork area - no capsule on this bottle - and while the cork was looking dry from the outside I tried to check and when barely touched it, it fell into the bottle... So I had to consume it right away. A wine from the time the Spanish Civil War broke out decided that time had come up for it to be consumed! Things could get worse than this...First impression did not disappoint me.
The color was a lightly hued bright, lucid and healthy looking brown - like an oloroso Sherry or Madeira - that is apart from at least 150ml of opaque brown-colored thick sediment at the bottom of the bottle. Nose was also Madeira-like, oxidative rancio style. Yet it was ultra clean, for its style, and intense with aromas of walnut, orange peel, wet leaves, cedar and forest wood and of course VA notes - I could almost sense the acidity from the nose. Very beautiful and stunningly complex, unless one expects something reminiscent of a red wine... In the palate the wine was bone dry with high acidity and absolutely no tannins left with medium body and very intense flavors which were like an interplay between the walnut and orange peel flavors. Finish was long, if not phenomenal, and nutty. A great wine with complexity and poise which I was unprepared to open the moment I (accidentally) did and which I enjoyed with hard cheese, bread and olives. Overall the wine was like a hundred-year old Sercial Madeira with less weight, bone dry and with no heat from alcohol.
As for the portion with the sediment, I filtered it through a coffee filter - it was still utterly opaque and brown - and enjoyed it too. It was more viscous, with heavier aromas but not something to throw away in any case.

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