Community Tasting Note
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Goldstone Likes this wine: 93 points
July 22, 2023 - Unscrewed and slowly drank at home contemplatively straight from cellar temperature over several hours. Beautiful transparent but deep ruby gemstone appearance..really bright and alive. Nose is slightly muted whilst at cellar temperature but a distinctive whiff of pomegranate and some slight toffee/caramel in the background, damp woodland earth and some definite cherry fruit in there. Definitely getting Burgundian as it warms up in the glass and the damp earth emerges more. Palate is immediately a lovely balanced tension between sour white cherries and stewed red rhubarb, and sweet ripe wild woodland strawberries. Loads of fresh acidity and with a spine of coffee grounds tannin to counterbalance it. Gorgeous elegant but rich black cherry and earth mouthfeel that shows off the quality of the winemaking, which has a hard to achieve ‘power without weight’ quality. Lingers inside the head on a moderate-length but very elegant finish.
Gosh…this is sensationally good and the best bottle yet of 11 from 2 cases bought from Rudi Bauer at the winery near release in 2005. I think that the cool serving temperature really helped. 93+184 views