Community Tasting Note
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RickG wrote:
November 21, 2010 - Popped and a small pour taken to let the bottle air a bit. Right out of the bottle, this has dried violets and fruits, leather and cigar box notes. The palate has lovely red fruit notes in a lighter tone (i.e. it's not dark, dense or primary). Lovely stuff now, real note later. mmmmm....
Over the course of the evening the nose opened up and gained complexity with some hightoned pine notes appearing and hints of balsa wood of all things. The nose is just amazingly on.
The palate, while good, is more modest - it's not dense, dark, etc. This is a very nice Sangio palate actually, showing red fruit, nice mouthfeel and good structure, but in comparison to the top notch nose, the palate's less impressive. It's still quite good though.
Well-stored bottles of this aren't going over the hill anytime soon, but the wine is lovely now and isn't going to get better, it will just become different. Drink now to maybe 5-10 years out.4,756 views