Community Tasting Note

• RPerro Likes this wine: 93 points

  October 13, 2023 - Decanted this for an hour before service. Right away, the aroma hits you...big dark fruits; blackberry, plum, maybe some fig? Coffee, some barrel notes, a bit of black pepper. Alcohol is lightly evident, but the fruit melds nicely with it. I will admit that this got harder and harder to drink as it sat in the decanter longer. Best right off the pop. Acid and tannin took over as it got more air. By hour 4 it was near undrinkable. Just a wall of black tea and battery acid with some blackberries hiding underneath. Not sure how to call this one. I loved it for the first couple of hours. Amazing wine, like 96-97 points! Later on, not so much...more like high 80s. Splitting the difference and going 93. I really think this has the legs to go another 10+ years at this point, so no rush to open these. Drink now - 2033+.

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• Mootsie commented:

  10/14/23, 7:38 AM - Nice note. My take on these wines, the entire series, is that they need to be tucked away for years, many years, 10-20. They just drink so young.

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