Community Tasting Note

• bon vivant wrote:

  December 7, 2013 - When we opened this to taste before dinner we decided to just leave the cork out for about an hr. This proved to be a lovely bottle and it was definitely very different than the power fruit laden wine of youth. This was beautifully integrated featuring soft dusty strawberry Grenache fruit. Delicate, satiny in texture and with a touch of baking spices and a round finish. There were some good secondary notes but no tertiary components and this went great with Susan's dish of Calamari in a savory Italian style tomato broth based loosely on Battali's recipe.
  Since all around the table (Jeb D, Sean O & Paul F ) have had various bottles of this, a lively conversation ensued as several years back many on the wine BB board declared this "a wine that has fallen apart and will not age". Ha, not so -in fact reading some additional notes here on CT my theory is that there may have been a shipment subjected to suboptimal storage somewhere along the way. I guess i was one of the lucky ones. Drinks great now, that said I do not see much potential for further improvement, so this is going into drinking rotation.

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• Tim Heaton commented:

  12/7/13, 8:10 AM - good note, Paul

• bon vivant commented:

  12/7/13, 3:09 PM - Thanks Tim -Happy Holidays!

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