Community Tasting Note

• nwbackpacker wrote: 84 points

  May 15, 2009 - This is my second bottle of this and I can't believe I didn't pick up before on the insane oakiness on this. This wine needs an hour or so to breathe to let the fruit aroma build up enough to even try to compete with the oak. Luckily the oak is fairly smooth and sweet and not horrendously overpowering, but I can't help but feel they really over oaked this. The fruit is actually decent once you get over the nose and let it sit in the glass/decanter for a while. Nice acid too, which really cut through the fat of the beef ribs I had with it.
  
  Overall, fairly drinkable, but too much oak and I would have been pissed if I had bought this at anywhere near MSRP.

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