Community Tasting Note

• Motz wrote: 90 points

  August 28, 2023 - Drank over two days, alongside the same vintage Plantey.
  
  A lovely bouquet, floral and fruity, with berry liqueur top notes.
  
  Then...well...modernity, in the form of extraction and ham-fisted oak treatment shows its hand. The $*&^ show begins at the middle, which fades quite abruptly, relevant to the bouquet and attack. The back reveals a gritty (extraction), acerbic, and green (oak-imparted) bite, which holds through a pinched finish.
  
  The wine fades from attack to finish, no bellringer. Minimal sense of place, beyond the perfume. Technically excellent, wholly disappointing. The comparatively humble Plantey showed this up in all measures of purity and balance. Poor QPR.

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5 Comments

• LiteItOnFire commented:

  8/28/23, 8:42 AM - Yeah these are stating to shutdown. Won’t touch mine for ~5 years

• Motz commented:

  8/28/23, 8:51 AM - Nothing suggested this has shut down, nor will to any significant extent, compared to other traditionally styled Left Bank offerings in this vintage.
  
  My critique of this generally soulless offering is manipulation, intended to please New World palates, which favor perfume over real substance, oak over sense of place, and polished textures over tannic grip...and who either do not mind, or do not notice, the bite of heavy extraction and lumber treatment at the back and finish.

• LiteItOnFire commented:

  8/29/23, 10:41 AM - Thanks for the deeper dive. Will be curious to see how these develop or not down the road. Appreciate it.

• WineGuyDelMar commented:

  8/30/23, 6:34 PM - I paid $39.99 at CostCo. Unlikely a poor QPR at that price.

• Motz commented:

  8/30/23, 6:39 PM - I too found it at Costco, for that or a similar price. Cheers!

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