Community Tasting Note
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Portland Seth wrote: flawed
December 23, 2023 - The cork seemed perfect but this wine is unmistakably oxidized, tastes like sour sherry. Smells like delicious caramel but undrinkable.
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Oldworlddrinker commented:
12/24/23, 5:25 PM - Your note is spot on. Just opened this wine on Christmas Eve, after one glass decided to go on CT to check others TN, if I only had seen this before! Wonder if you also got it from Garagiste? I had other vintages of this wine and 2020 is not a true representation.
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Portland Seth commented:
12/24/23, 6:00 PM - That's a shame. I have three vintages from Garagiste so I have to be careful to keep them straight. I thought the '18 was fantastic. The '19 wasn't quite as good, and of course this isn't drinkable. I mark a wine flawed if the cork was bad or the bottle wasn't stored properly, but if this is how the vintage tastes then I feel like we have to rate what's in the bottle. Sometimes Santa gives you a lump of coal.