Community Tasting Note
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oldwines Likes this wine: 92 points
February 9, 2024 - Pre-Super Bowl Gentlemen's Dinner (New Jersey, USA): Acquired a few years ago from Zachy's sourced from a collector in Italy. Decanted at 4pm and tasted at 8pm with the 3rd course alongside 1964 Damilano and 1967 Guiseppe Mascarello. This looked appropriately aged, quite light and translucent with significant sediment. There was something that I found unusual about this, while not unattractive this had some distinct VA such that it actually tasted slightly sweet, almost with a layer of vanilla. It didn’t quite seem as typical or what I expected as the other 2 50+ year-old wines. It seemed raisiny, possibly heat-damaged or "stewed" by some in the group. It had lots of secondary and tertiary notes and was not at all unpleasant, but the comparison was striking for me. I think most people had this as 3rd best of the flight, with one or two people thinking it closer to 2nd. I have one more bottle to try in the relatively near future…
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Octavian_Valkamo commented:
3/8/24, 4:59 AM - It seems we have had quite same experiences with this wine recently. We only let it sit for about 2 hours in total, but it did open up way more and interestingly the irony, bloody and toasty aromas faded whilst this potpourri, soft red fruit and toasted spices came up, kind of like winter spices. Luckily I also have one more bottle with a better fill level than this one I opened. Cheers!