Community Tasting Note
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Mark1npt Likes this wine: 97 points
May 27, 2023 - So, I'm going through emails yesterday about the release of the '20 vintage of this exact wine. I'd always wanted to try this wine but had not yet had the privilege......low and behold a few hours later Gabriel shows up on our doorstep with this '15 for our dinner at London Club! Freaky, right?
He said he slow ox'd it for a number of hours throughout the day. We tested it and thought it needed a brief but full decant so we gave it 30 min in the decanter while we did our 'at home tasting/nibbles' first, then back into the bottle it went for the restaurant.
Opened while slightly chilled at the restaurant and decided to chill it a little further, too. This is a shimmering, classy wine. Immediately the extravagant/perfumed/floral nose grabs your attention, in fact, I think the nose is a few years ahead of the palate and should get a 98 just by itself. Even with the decant, the wine still came across as slightly tight until open for another hour at the table. So, if you have any bottles of this '15 I'd do a pretty good full decant on it, say 3 hours to start, then see where it is? The palate to me at this youthful stage was a red/dark red fruited 96 so averaging the score out to a 97 for this bottle at this time with surely more upside in coming years. Gabriel, thanks so much for bringing this beautiful wine to our dinner! What a treat!1 person found this helpful 1,919 views
2 Comments
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gteran76 commented:
5/30/23, 2:16 PM - I’m happy that you enjoyed it!!
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Mark1npt commented:
5/30/23, 3:00 PM - It had an absolutely beautiful nose!