Community Tasting Note
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silton wrote: 93 points
September 19, 2009 - Yesterday this wine got a 3 hour decant. It was pretty much brooding and impenetrable throughout those 3 hours, big and complex from the get go but crying out for char-grilled pepper lamb or something to cut it back to size. Today the nose is just fantastic, if a touch austere, with white pepper and bacon fat and boysenberry tumbling out of the glass. The palate has a meaty black fruit core with black olive and a solid tannic spine, and it is just getting better and better as its stemmy character gets more integrated the longer the wine is open. I tasted this from barrel and bottle at separate tastings at Pax, and find today the same pure fruit quality as before even as it has coiled up in its structure a little bit. Sleep this 3-6 years and expect a 95 point wine when you wake it up.
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