Community Tasting Note

The Vines That Bind wrote:

Tuesday, February 5, 2019 - Ten-year check up and this is more or less indistinguishable from barrel tasting. Dark and tight. After 90-minute decant the nose still doesn’t want to give anything up, just dark and brooding. Some sweeter chocolatey notes, but still a lot of glycerin. Black currant and intense. Palate is similarly dark and brooding, although it is pleasantly balanced, not as long as you might hope. Lower acid. I can’t see this budging for another ten years... All fruit and wood right now with no signs of earth. Definitely a technically strong wine, even though it admittedly ticks all the Parkerized modernity boxes, just a little frustrating that it is going to take so long to see any expression or earth influence here. I am a bad judge of young wine, or in this case wine that is showing as more or less brand new, so it’s hard to say, but I’m not sure I see this breaking 94 at any stage. This is what I expected tonight. See you in 2029...

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