Community Tasting Note

• sh6k wrote: 95 points

  January 30, 2024 - Torn on the rating for this one.
  
  In its favor, this was one of the greatest expressions of that magical relaxing elegance and finesse of a perfectly integrated and aged wine. Where there’s no need to do anything as vulgar as picking out gooseberries and pencil lead, it just invites you to lean back and marvel in the nose. 99 points of elegance.
  
  Against it… there just wasn’t a lot else going on. Big contrast to the 09 Chave Hermitage I had last week, which had that same elegance but also big fruit and all the other fireworks. 90 points of mellow pleasant well executed wine.
  
  For me it was probably too old — I’m guessing some of those fireworks would have been there 10 years ago. But that elegance can’t be denied.

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