Community Tasting Note

• Wine Bonzai wrote: 81 points

  September 22, 2010 - Popped and poured directly into glass with no decanting. Color is a very pleasing dark reddish-purple. On the nose I get a little bit of acetone...this wine definitely needs to breathe a bit before drinking. The wine is medium-bodied but borders on the thin side. Very tart cranberry with lots of tart acidity. I feel like I'm sucking on one of those 'sour patch' candies (!). There are some subtle earthy notes but they are buried under the tart fruit. This wine would stand up well to full-flavored cheese and hearty red sauce. It's a decent table wine and really needs to be served with food. I doubt it would be a crowd pleaser especially if your guests like fruity new world expressions in wine. I'm going to give it some time to air out and open up....stay tuned....
  
  Poured it through a Venturi a number of times to speed things up... A 3 hour tour in the decanter helped ease the wine but it's still very tight.
  
  Sept. 25, 2010: Sampled over the course of 3 days. By the third day it was much better but still is a wine that needs to be to paired up with food. Wine could benefit from a few more years in the cellar. If opening now, be patient and give this wine lots of time in the decanter.

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