Community Tasting Note

• Trickyone wrote:

  July 29, 2012 - Le (limite') Tour de France (Home): Decanted at 11:35 as the 3rd wine of a 1 p.m. tasting. By the time we got to it, the decanter had held it for about 3 hours. Bouquet was good on opening and improved over the course of the afternoon. One amusing thing about this bottle was the label, which showed the alcohol as between 11 and 14%! My guess is that it was closer to the latter figure, as one of the tasters commented on a slight sweetness; I suggested it was probably the alcohol level. Garrigue was present in spades, as was spiciness. This bottle was imported by Kermit Lynch, and I recounted a story recalled from his classic "Adventures on the Wine Route". He insisted at the time (and I'm sure still does) that his wines not go through filtration. I suggested to the group that one reason we were able to enjoy such a smooth and expansive flavor profile in a 27-year-old non-reserve bottling was that Mr. Lynch kept his clients from knocking the stuffing out of their wines. Good for him, and we thank him and the Brunier family. This was a bottle at or just over its peak, but not so far in decline that it suffered. It was one of the tasters' favorite wine of the day.

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