Community Tasting Note

• jviz wrote:

  January 1, 2023 - I thought this bottle was less than it should have been. Drinkable but oxidized enough that it didn’t wow any tasters in a group of 10, save one whose palate tends toward madiera.

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• toofine commented:

  1/10/23, 11:04 AM - Did you decant? Just had 2004 Ca del Merlo and it was similar upon opening...almost like turpentine...but then 2 hours later it was sublime!

• jviz commented:

  1/10/23, 11:27 AM - I didn't and I think it would have been a mistake. The profile became more oxidized with air, rather than improving. This was an auction purchase of which I got two other bottles (98, 99 vintage). One was fabulous and the other more badly oxidized than this.

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