Community Tasting Note
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wormfarmer Likes this wine: 90 points
March 28, 2014 - This thing demands a seat at the table. Lively and oddly mercurial for its weight and darkness. It seems like it should be an immovable object, it has such palate presence and tannic grip -- but every re-visit had us trying to assess where all it had been in the five minutes since we'd checked in last.
Quick decant an hour prior to re-opening; the wine evolved throughout the night. Began with a brooding, musty, dusty, hay-ey quality, layered over black olive skins. Overall though, in the first hour, I was most struck by the meatiness of it, the umami-ness of it. The fruit came later (dried black currants? dusty old black fruit, in any case), and the herbs later still (though I'd be hard-pressed to tell you what they were). Two hours after opening, it softened slightly, but the tannins remained intense. And the sediment is enough to make a meal out of.
This is not a 93-point wine -- but it's more interesting than a lot of 93-point wines, if that makes sense. What fun.1 person found this helpful 2,446 views
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kevinacohn commented:
3/29/14, 7:52 AM - This is a great tasting note that perfectly captures the experience of enjoying a bottle of Paolo Bea: the unexplainable qualities are what make his wines so compelling.