Community Tasting Note

• WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine: 96 points

  February 16, 2024 - Fairest Creatures and Where to Find Them (K&L Wine Merchant - Redwood City): Nose: Fresh and gently ripe blueberries and rainier cherries, with its touch of bright, fresh tartness - just so. Damp forest floor and gently spiced twigs, and subtle herbs amongst flowers.
  
  Palate: A soft note of pure, bright fruity berry on the midpalate but nothing detracting. Dark black fruits blend with a dark graphite, savory earth and earthy river stones. Finishes with steeped tea and flavors clinging on to the tannin to the very end.
  
  This will need air. Was lucky enough to get a second pour from a freshly opened bottle and it’s nothing like the first pour that has had a slow-ox treatment of around 22 hours. The pop and pour showed much closed and tighter, literally like squeezing bundle of straws into a tight grip, with each straw representing a different aspects of flavor. This could be one of those "too many cooks in the kitchen" kinda deal, but I want to give it the benefit of the doubt that it just needs some age, especially since these are only sold in magnums. It will take YEARS for that oxygen in the mag to make even the slightest dent in the wine in terms of aging. 95-96 for the slow-ox'ed bottle, and maybe like a 93-94 for the fresh bottle.

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