Community Tasting Note
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Tim Heaton wrote:
January 28, 2012 - Mayfair tasting group does Syrah (Denver, CO): Opened, not decanted and served blind one hour later. Deep ruby color, slight sign of age. Clearly New World with plenty of alcohol and cherry cough syrup leading the way at first. The palate was full-bodied, but proved as uninteresting as the nose. My #8 of 9, group #8. The format called for points, so I gave this one 86, guessed Washington state and guessed 2007. The 2oz or so that I had upon first pour did not change during the following 2 hours. At the end of the blind tasting, we re-visited the bottles that were showing well- all of them got drained in the following 2 hours, all of them having openedup completely by that time. The Piedrasassi saw no more takers that night and was re-corked for someone to have the next day (prolly the person that supplied it). This was not a flawed bottle, I think it just showed so poorly when tasted side-by-side with some really fantastic Syrah from all over the world. Drink now, not getting better, score: B
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bobadopolis commented:
12/2/16, 6:34 PM - Hi Strategies. Just picked up a couple of bottles of the 2004 Piedrasassi from Mayfair Liquors, one of my favorite local wine shops. I note that this post is from 4 years ago, but if the Mayfair tasting group lives on, I would love to learn more, as long as you're okay with a Park Hill interloper infiltrating your ranks. Thanks! -Bob Congdon