Community Tasting Note

• dannykoz wrote: 92 points

  January 10, 2010 - Cork broke while opening. First tasted small sample as pop and pour to see what we had. The nose was extremely closed with very hot alcohol at first. First fruit started at about one hour open, with prune and a slight barnyard (my description of "dirty sock" bordeaux nose). Opened nicely after 2 hours. Still not super big fruit, but very French style big wine. Extremely long, slightly spicy finish, with quite a bit of tannin left. Good structre and full, sumptuous mouth feel, with deep purple color. Continued to get better with time, but alcohol was not as balanced as I'd like, and not my favorite style, but clearly an excellent example of a new world wine for old world lovers. I would have to say that I "appreciated" ts wine more than I "enjoyed" it.

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