Community Tasting Note

• Musinus wrote: 85 points

  January 6, 2023 - Initially, the wine offered up rich and seductive scents of red berries, black cherries, plums, and mocha. The mouthfeel: creamy, fruity, and alcoholic. After several hours, however, this seemingly promising creation was overwhelmed by alcohol and unrelenting bitterness. The fruit seemed to have retreated into submission, leaving behind a very muted wine whose structure was lacking. Is this merely a passing phase? Hard to say, but I’m not sticking around to find out.

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• Redmtnman commented:

  1/6/23, 12:44 PM - Hello MUSINUS, from your description I’d guess your bottle was corked. I had this wine a month ago and there was ample fruit and no bitterness. FM is good about replacing corked bottles if you just contact them.

• Musinus commented:

  1/6/23, 1:02 PM - The bottle definitely lacked the telltale mustiness that occurs with corked wine (I've had my share of those over my 45 years of wine tasting). But I was taken aback by the bitterness that overwhelmed all else once the wine had been allowed to breathe for several hours. As a Washingtonian, I've been inclined to support our state wines. But most domestics are addicted to over-extraction to enhance flavor. I'll continue to focus on collecting Burgundy.

• Scotty56 commented:

  1/7/23, 8:49 AM - Wow not my experience at all having had a pair of these. Didn’t find them overly extracted whatsoever. Very balanced IMO. Agree that FM is really good about doing what’s right if it’s a flawed bottle. There are some comments from them floating around CT recognizing similar issues on possible corking, and they mention to reach out to them. Cheers!

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