Community Tasting Note

• ben7210 Likes this wine: 92 points

  January 28, 2023 - Best on day 3. Deep garnet. Leather and tobacco nose. On the palate high acidity, medium alcohol medium well integrated tannins, plums and pepper, long finish. Outstanding wine, but needs a lengthy decant before it yields much. Drinking well, probably near peak.

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• RichEB1 commented:

  1/29/23, 2:39 PM - Thanks so much for the note! To confirm, you mentioned that this was better on day 3 and needed a long decant, but also that it's near peak. Sounds like some more time in bottle might be ideal based on your first comments, but would love your thoughts. Cheers!

• ben7210 commented:

  1/29/23, 5:41 PM - Yeah it's a tricky one and I think this has to do with my limited experience with Cab Pfeffer and how it ages. I don't think there's any rush on drinking it, but I expect over time more of the fruit will fade, and since it does't offer much fruit to begin with, for my palate that leans toward drinking sooner.
  
  As a comparison I have preferred the mourvedre I've had from Enz because it tends to be less restrained in the fruit department, but both of these have the unmistakeable backbone of Enz and once this opens up it's a joy to drink.
  
  One additional note, I use a Coravin pivot, and didn't give it much time on day 1 so day 3 with the pivot means less oxidation than you'd get from just leaving the cork in, and my sense is with more of a decant on day 1 it would have been more ready to go.

• RichEB1 commented:

  1/29/23, 5:45 PM - Man, that is EXCELLENT feedback! I completely get where you're coming from and VERY much appreciate the detailed response! I've got a couple of these bad-boys so maybe I'll pop one sooner than later. Cheers and thanks again for the note/dialogue

• ben7210 commented:

  1/29/23, 6:13 PM - Enjoy! Maybe split the difference and give it another 6 months and see how it's doing. In general I'm finding 2018s are drinking great.

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