Community Tasting Note
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Ingmars wrote:
February 9, 2024 - The previous package emptied, a new one was acquired, given I was in the vicinity. This one showed an earlier filling date - 09.10.2021. Impressively deep and dark plum-red with some residual crimson and ruby to garnet at fringe. Quite different in appearance to the 26.05.2022 filling. To be picky, the nose on two occasions verged on being slightly porty. But what I like here is that there is a bit of pepper from the shiraz and there is nothing cherry-like to suggest carbonic maceration. Instead, there is a decent amount of dark ripe berry. The mouth is better than the later filling as well, being fuller, rounder, considerably more mellow and in view of the category, even polished. It does get tiresome, though, if one continues to bend the elbow in an endeavour to find why it's a better filling. Clearly a different, superior and preferable batch. Between quite good and good.
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