Community Tasting Note
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mflesh wrote: 93 points
September 14, 2012 - Enjoyed tonight at Del Frisco's in Fort Worth. Wine was uncorked to a dark red stain with zero bleed. The wine was decanted. Some was poured into the glass. The wine had a very herbal and brambly nose, with some flint, minerality, leather, smoke, and an herbal kind of component, rather dusty. I'll start reviewing the wine after it had been opened for 30 minutes. The wine was, from start to finish and even after opening, very elegant. Soft, full bodied wine. On the palate was a blackberry fruit front with maybe some young slightly ripe plum, trending towards a creme de cassis and some dark chocolate mocha, but had a very interesting flinty, rocky component that would sometimes show itself. Finish was leathery, spicy with food, but rather subdued without. The best thing about this wine was that it went with Italian marinated shrimp, a salad with an avocado ranch, steak, creamed spinach and broccoli and each one of these courses showed a slightly different side of the wine. The shrimp showed more of the mid and finish. The steak accentuated the spice and the front. Overall quite a treat. Thank you to the Sangiovese component! This wine is still fairly young. Definitely don't agree with the 2014 community "drink by" date at all. Drink now with decanting, or hold for probably up to 5 years.
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curtr commented:
1/10/13, 11:44 AM - I appreciate your comment on aging this wine. Predicting how long a wine will last has never been an area I am comfortable predicting.