Community Tasting Note

• RickG wrote:

  November 14, 2010 - Pulled from a cold cellar at around 3pm, cork popped but nothing poured from the bottle. Initial impression of the nose was good - bit faint, but it was cold and just opened. I let the bottle warm a bit and left it open until 6pm when I recorked it and took it over to a friend's.
  
  Classic dried roses on the nose with a bit of spice. Initially light on the palate this put on some weight over the next 3 hours. Lovely medium red fruit and floral notes on the palate. Good acids lift things aromatically but don't cut off the finish or feel unbalanced. A bit of the classic tar too. This is lovely stuff - nice fruit, great nose, good secondary characteristics. It's typically 1990, though, in that it lacks a bit of structure compared to 1989. But that's really quibbling more than anything. This is certainly ready but doesn't show any signs of declining soon - drink now, wait a few years.

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