Community Tasting Note

• Goldstone Likes this wine: 92 points

  July 9, 2023 - Angela's Belated Birthday Lunch (Giando, 5 Star Street, Wan Chai, Hong Kong): Decanted for several hours then re-bottled and kept in the fridge overnight for Sunday lunch. Pristine cork barely stained beyond the bottom end. Translucent, slightly rust coloured with a distinct wide watery meniscus. Palate pre-decanting is very tightly coiled, unyieldingly tannnic.. After the overnight double-decant, the rust colour has disappeared to reveal a lovely dark garnet red. Nose is ‘oh wow’ blast of deeply confit cherries and raspberries, espresso coffee, high cocoa chocolate, all very bass piano and guitar notes. Very complex and clean. Palate is is equally ‘wow’…extremely precise and well-delineated winemaking, great slightly bitter black cherry fruit, high acidity. Too young to have unfurled more than halfway so the finale needs another 5+ years to blossom. 92+ for now.

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