Community Tasting Note

• Justin S Likes this wine:

  June 11, 2023 - No decant, followed over the course of a few hours. This is a tremendously flavorful wine. On the initial attack, you don't sense the acidity, but instead are hit with a wall of fruit, followed very quickly by a wallop of dry extract and minerality. The length / persistence is notable. For me, because of the huge mid palate and tamed acidity, I kept putting this back in the fridge to cool it down. Flavor gets excellent scores, but wish it had a little more acidity. Perhaps a few more years will tame the mid palate a bit? Let's see, but for now a tasty wine.

  2 people found this helpful 588 views

4 Comments

• chngpw commented:

  6/14/23, 11:25 AM - Very interesting! I actually felt this had a ton of acid. While I had some fruit it was reticent in comparison to the chalky, stony minerality. Could be that I did not give it enough time to open or bottle variation. Tempted to open another bottle now

• Justin S commented:

  6/14/23, 11:32 AM - My bottle was like that right out of the gate with the initial sip and even the next day. So it probably is just bottle variation...seemed like Don's first bottle was flawed if you look at the early notes for this vintage and his second was much better. And your note is very different from mine and I have no reason to doubt what you experienced.

• chngpw commented:

  6/14/23, 10:17 PM - Likewise. I will certainly open another bottle in time and report back. This was a natural cork if I remember correctly so I do hope this is not an issue with the cork.

• poppacork commented:

  6/17/23, 4:35 PM - This producer needs to switch to DIAM. Bottle variation on a young wine is avoidable.

Add a Comment