Community Tasting Note
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anubis Likes this wine: 93 points
March 13, 2010 - Bottled 1990. Released 1994. [cork, 13.5% alc]. My fathers wine. Celebrating my wifes new job. Cellared in a good cellar for last 10+ years.
5:00pm Opened. Not a good start, the cork disintegrated and after some surgery, got 75% of the cork out and pushed the remaining into the bottle. Then decanted it via a fine filter. A hell of a lot of sediment in the filter and even more left in bottle. With the initial nose, there wasn't a lot of distinctive smells. 5 minutes later it started getting some moldy smells. The wife says it smells like moldy blue cheese. Not looking good. Small taste and it has an OK up front taste, nothing standing out, worryingly it has a very in your face taste right at the end, again moldy blue cheese smell. This is probably going to turn out bad. Start thinking about a backup bottle.
6:00pm I think it has improved, the moldy smells isn't as obvious. The after taste has also subsided some. Wife still says it is not good, I'd trust her taste before mine. It will be interesting to see what my father says when he tries it.
7:00pm Father arrives, has a smell and then a taste. Sort of says "it's OK", but without a lot of conviction. Opened and decanted the backup bottle, Rockford Basket Press 2005.
8:00pm Sit down to dinner with BBQ cattleman cutlets. WHAT A WINE! What an amazing change in 3 hours, especially the last hour. All 5 of of us drinking say that the wine is impressive. It's not the same wine I opened 3 hours ago, smoothness, creaminess and fullness right through the mouth. No musty/moldy smell at all.
Colour is near dark garnet, with a slight cloudiness. Up against the 2005 Basket Press it is very obviously cloudy. Nose has very slight spicyness. Taste is very subdued. Not a lot of fruit, but lots of other flavours trying to get through. Good fullness in mouth and lasted through the mouth quiet well.
Over the next hour of drinking it developed some more. Pity we didn't have a magnum to see how it would have continued to develop.
Decanting for 3 hours is a must for this wine, probably needs 4 hours. Still has plenty of life left as long as it is stored appropriately.1 person found this helpful 8,057 views
1 Comment
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MindMuse commented:
3/14/10, 11:48 AM - Great report after a good and enjoyable CT Forum discussion beforehand!