Community Tasting Note
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WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine:
December 29, 2023 - Nose: [60°-64°] Dark and fresh red berries and fresh plums, the smell of an empty and dried out cigar box with pencil shavings and powdered graphite inside of it, cedar with light and gentle forest floor notes as if it just finished raining, and smooth wet stones. With some time, aromas settle down to become more clean and gentle with red floral notes.
Palate: [60°-64°] Black plums with the firm, fresh yellow flesh with just enough ripeness to tip the scales so that it's not just a world full of tannin, bitter minerals and stone. Loose and damp earth with deeply rooted trees, and smooth wet slate. Heavily steeped black tea on the finish.
Attributes: Lots of sediment. Clear, dark medium ruby. Dry with high amounts of firm, grippy tannin. Medium to medium-plus body with medium acidity. Good finish of at least 18-20 seconds.
Thoughts: Towering tannin and structure, like the treefolk you read about in fiction novels. Though not the brute or aggro type, it's rather more calm and stoic. Tannin for YEARS, so much that it's kinda like literally steeping 5-6 English breakfast teabags in a single cup. Great acidity to keep things fresh. Definitely one of the kind you want to cellar away for at least 7-10 years. Can't really rate this as this was stupid young, but if I had to, 95-96+
Serving notes: Bordeaux glass. Slow-ox'ed at cellar temp ~54° and consumed over 4.5 hours. Recommend serving ~58°-62°. Decant ~2-4hrs if opening now.3 people found this helpful 1,527 views
12 Comments
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MN Wine Junkie commented:
12/29/23, 10:34 PM - WOW....do my eyes deceive me or did I just read a wine was too young??? :)
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WineBurrowingWombat commented:
12/29/23, 10:41 PM - EXTREMELY
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MN Wine Junkie commented:
12/29/23, 10:53 PM - No....I get it....just never thought I would ever read it in one of your notes! I have been hearing the 2018s are going into hibernation. :)
Hope you're having a great holiday season! I still need to make a trip up there! -
WineBurrowingWombat commented:
12/29/23, 11:01 PM - Likewise my friend, hope you're staying warm. And slowly drinking away at that stash lol
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MN Wine Junkie commented:
12/29/23, 11:09 PM - Too slow! Plus I went to Burgundy and bought a few bottles while there!
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MN Wine Junkie commented:
12/29/23, 11:13 PM - I think you guys should all come here and help me!
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MJP Hou TX commented:
12/30/23, 12:36 PM - I've got a stash of these in the cellar and I'm sure my future grandchildren will be fighting over them!
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MN Wine Junkie commented:
12/30/23, 1:19 PM - LOL....I hope they are ready sooner than that
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sfwinelover1 commented:
1/19/24, 4:36 PM - I think the ‘10s are just at the start of their drinking window with lots of air. Abreus and Colgins need lots of time to show their best, IMO, and WBW, among the people on this thread, you have the most of that . . .
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WineBurrowingWombat commented:
1/19/24, 10:41 PM - Yeah, I would agree with your assessment as well. This one was a tannic monster!
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sfwinelover1 commented:
1/20/24, 7:51 AM - Almost of the Abreus and Colgins I’m buying are in the ‘04-‘10 range, and for my palate, they’ve been drinking tremendously. Cheers!
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MN Wine Junkie commented:
1/20/24, 11:58 AM - I don't know why I keep buying them....Like Michael said, I will be dead by the time they are ready to drink! Plus, unlike Michael, I have no kids, thus no grandkids! I'd say live and learn, but I never do (learn that is!)