Community Tasting Note
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Arinbraghe Likes this wine: 90 points
December 8, 2013 - From a 375 ml bottle. In this format, perfectly à point and ready to be drunk. Completely resolved but still fully plush of fruit, this betrays its age only on the finish which is a bit bonier and more splayed-out than either the attack or mid-palate. Old-school Cali style with new(ish)-school 14.5% alcohol that you couldn't detect if you tried. In fact the only complaint one could have here is that the wine's a bit too binary: the attack and mid-palate put you in mind of ribeye, but the finish is a touch frayed and retiring, such that you'd much rather match with root vegetables or pulses. Have not had this in 750 ml format but if the backside is anything more like the front end in those bigger bottles, you have runway model-grade material on your hands right now.
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2 Comments
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que syrah syrah commented:
12/9/13, 8:15 AM - Good note, thank you. I've had quite a few of these from 750's and don't really see the fall off on the back end described.
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Arinbraghe commented:
12/9/13, 10:38 AM - Thanks. Yes, I was a bit surprised by how vital and punchy this was from half-bottle at almost 10 years of age. Maybe I made too much of the fall-off on the finish, but it was about the only gripe I could muster. Nothing really comes apart here, it just fades a touch compared to the front end. Hence my surmise that in 750 ml this is firing on all cylinders. Great little bottle of wine.