Community Tasting Note
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Gobi wrote: 92 points
December 28, 2011 - A blend of 61% Carmenere, 24% Cabernet Sauvignon, 12% Merlot, and 3% Petit Verdot. A very intensely colored wine with a dark central core with a bright ruby red rim, also exhibiting a nice glossy surface foreshadowing its viscous texture. The nose is quite polished and gentile showing strong aromas of raspberry liqueur, cherries, blackberries, roasted coffee beans, small dollops of milk chocolate, vanilla, floral aromas, new leather, graphite, and a touch of spices on the end. On the palate the fruit comes across very pure, with intense raspberries and maraschino cherries on the attack, bitter coffee with dark chocolate mixed together with blackberry liqueur on the mid-palate and continuing on to the finish with a dab of creamy vanilla. A very soft delicate textured wine with a muscled structure; a dash of acidity with massive grainy almost green tannins with high amounts of alcohol that burn on the after taste. This definitely show's its French pedigree, almost Right Bank Bordeaux with that New World purity in fruit and high alcohol. Just a tad bit uncontrolled and out of harmony with the massive alcohol and tannic presence.
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