Community Tasting Note

• Jhcwine Does not like this wine: 88 points

  January 26, 2013 - Nose - tannin, meat, not alot of fruit. Palette - prunes, meat, some tannin, some fruit. Not my style.

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• vinojones commented:

  2/22/13, 5:50 PM - "not my style" but still 90 pts??

• Jhcwine commented:

  2/23/13, 11:06 AM - Yes, there are many decent wines that others may like that are just not my cup of tea. I do like Dunn, just not this particular bottle. I tasted it at a retailers tasting bar, so it could have degenerated at the bar (despite the argon) or it just could be this bottle or perhaps it is this vintage. I did not (at the time) feel the wine warranted a below 90 score. Maybe I did not want to give a Dunn a below 90. Perhaps I should have.
  
  Fyi, I recently tasted a bottle of Chimney Rock that was just plonk and scored it accordingly. It wasn't a "bad" bottle in the "off" sense of the word. Could have been a bad batch or year or yes well a bad wine. Fyi, I have had good bottles of Chimney Rock (albeit a different wine and year). Anyway, I received a very negative comment from a member. How dare I rate this bottle so low. Well, you can only judge a wine by the bottle (or bottles) that you open. and call a spade a spade, based on your personal experience.
  
  But I am beginning to detect abit of bias in this community towards California wines, and sensitivity when we don't score California icons well. Well, I have no compunction about scoring any wine poorly (I've had Lafites that were undrinkable now due to excess tanin and thereby scored them low).
  
  Cheers
  
  Jhcolman

• vinojones commented:

  2/23/13, 11:24 AM - JHC- my comment was not about Dunn but rather the disconnect between a score of 90 which is generally considered to be a very desirable wine and your "does not like" . I have nothing against you not liking that bottle, or any wine, but I think the score should more closely match the description-- how about an 82 or 75 score? John Gilman, a professional wine critic as example often scores wine he is critical of, or not his style, in the 70's.

• Jhcwine commented:

  2/23/13, 11:47 AM - Valid point. Will rescore.

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