Community Tasting Note
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Paul S wrote: flawed
September 15, 2013 - Asher's 1st Birthday (Alex's place): From a 6 litre Methuselah (my first ever bottle in this format!), this was Tragically Corked. I have really enjoyed previous bottles of this wine, but tonight, the light but distinct TCA notes of wet cardboard on the nose could have brought a grown man to tears. There were still nice aromas on the wine - tobacco, dried woody undergrowth, dark fruit - cassis, plums and blackberries - some savoury notes, almost as if the wine was manfully trying to fight the flaw. However, there was no escaping it on the palate. Those dreaded cardboardy notes were there again; and while the fine structure and balanced from previous bottles was still there, as was the sense of purity on the cassis flavours, all this was muted, dulled, weakened, especially towards a rather flat finish. There was actually enough still left in the wine to enjoy, but very sip was haunted by the TCA. So sad.
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mattias_hansen@hotmail.com commented:
10/1/13, 12:22 AM - Ouch, corked in that size. Painfull