Community Tasting Note

• csimm wrote: 95 points

  November 27, 2023 - Decanted for approximately three hours, which seemed to yield good results considering how impatient I was to crack the cap on this bottle and see what all the fuss was about.
  
  I’m in the silky and sheeny camp on this one, and did not experience it as necessarily bold or burly as others here on CT have expressed. The finessed structure here is firm and youthfully postured, but exquisitely contoured and polished. It finishes almost plush and flowing, but with solid focus and completeness in its delivery of primary purpley-red fruit flavor. I didn’t sense the cluster influence, at least not in the stemmy or woody way that can often accompany such an inclusion. The sense of firewater was mild to nonexistent as well; no distracting heat for me. Instead, it was mostly a smooth jazz and snapping fingers/coffee shop spoken word kinda vibe.
  
  The curvature of the execution is really where this thing is already hitting its high notes, easing the overall perception of juvenility and leaving one with the intellectual acknowledgment of a young wine but with the overall feeling of a wine that ingratiates, even despite being a young pup. Some short term cellaring will give it the confidence it needs to squeeze out a few more follicles on its artistic beard scruff and scribble up some more super boss hipster verses for its poetry slam debut in 2027.

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3 Comments

• MN Wine Junkie commented:

  11/27/23, 11:35 PM - Love reading your notes Chris! You definitely have a gift for writing! Thanks for note on this one! I figured to wait on mine, I think I only have 1 bottle. I am guessing it came in a mixed pack. Anyway, many times the cluster influence it to provide more tannins, not really to add flavors, although, as you point out, sometimes a woody flavor can develop. Did you get mouth-puckering tannins when you tasted?
  
  Anyway, always a please to read your notes, and I wish you a safe, healthy and happy holiday season!

• Decanting Queen commented:

  11/28/23, 4:21 AM - Thanks CSIMM. Great review. The last of my Aberro wines —pretty sure it was the one we aren’t supposed to touch yet. But you make it so tempting…

• csimm commented:

  11/29/23, 10:19 PM - I was impressed with the finesse and polish here. I wouldn’t open another bottle for a few years minimum, but it wasn’t a total mistake either. It’s just primary fruit for the most part, but it’s otherwise not unapproachable. Will be very curious to see how it ages…

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