Community Tasting Note

mcclin47 wrote:

Thursday, January 20, 2011 - Easily one of the best bottles I have ever had. The nose is unassuming, if anything one might term it very "even." In my personal experience, the nose of a wine sometimes betrays the body; excellent wines will frequently be undercut by a wimpy and watery nose that makes a poor first impression. Although the exquisiteness of the body may salvage the wine overall, one is left wondering what could have been.

This is not one of those wines. The nose is confident but understated, albeit obviously young. You can almost smell the ripeness upon first taking a sniff, but it is not off-putting as it might be with some wines. In a way, it is probably a crime to drink this bottle so young, but it is also a unique experience to taste the transition over time, which is something I most definitely intend to do.

The coloring is even and deep, although I seem to never notice coloring unless something is seriously off.

The body is perfectly balanced. Some astringency lingers, yes, but the background flavors are so harmonious that it is hard to subtract much from the overall enjoyment. It is ripe and jammy, full of flavor, but clearly refined in the way that most fruit bombs are not. I can sense that a few years of cellaring might refine it even more and elevate it to an even higher level, but I must admit that I thoroughly enjoyed this rather nascent version. To have or to hold, it is a tremendous value for the price point, and I fully intend on buying several more bottles. I regret that I cannot compare it to previous vintages, but this iteration is truly sublime.

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