Community Tasting Notes (1) Avg Score: 92 points

  • Best bottle - X-Mas Edition (Restaurant 5, Stuttgart): Glass: Zalto Bordeaux
    Decanted. Never heard of this wine before. A strict selection of the best berries from a single parcel (Sunspot). This is one of the different parcels that Shafer sources its famous Hillside select. Only 1 barrel produced, sold at auction if I get it right.
    As the name Sunspot promises, this wine comes clearly from a very warm area: Deep, ruby, purple color. Needs a lot of air and time to open up, lots of primary fruit, herbs, spruce needles. Still very young.
    Dry, lots of extract sweetness. 14,1% abv, that makes this wine occasionally a bit hot. High, very silky tannin, medium acidity. Lots of primary red and dark fruit, herbs, resin. Warm taste. I guess it is still way to young and needs a lot of time to blend in all its fruit and melt down some baby fat. Really hard to rate. Amazing experience, but at the moment only around 92+

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