Community Tasting Note

Paul S wrote:

Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - Esoteric Wine Dinner (Absinthe, Boat Quay): Glowingly delicious. This was one of the two non-esoteric, thus off-theme bottles, but it was so good that no one complained. WOTN for most on the table. It had such a lovely Left-bank Bordeaux nose, strewn with tobacco, dried earth and exotic spice aromas mingling amidst clean cassis scents and some gentle floral accents. Wow. Really appealing. The palate was absolutely wonderful too. Pure cassis notes were cossetted by soft, silky tannins, bright acidity from the attack, giving the wine a lovely sense of definition and balance. It then glided into a slightly chewier mid-palate, where the dark fruit was met with earth, meat, and some minerally undertones, before moving into asavoury ending, where gentle notes of tobacco, spice and earth nestled amongst some plummy notes. Mouthfilling, delicious and wonderfully integrated - this was glowing. On the evidence of this bottle, it is wonderful now and will continue to be at least for the next 5 years and beyond.

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