Community Tasting Note

• coremill wrote: 83 points

  January 7, 2015 - Initially served blind. I guessed a modernist youngish Right Bank Bordeaux. Very ripe but not sweet black fruit, very extracted with lots of drying tannin, and a ton of vanillay, light-char oak. With extended air this got oakier and oakier, with oak tannin drying out the palate. There is nothing here that suggests Mencia. It seems to be made in a vin de garde style with all that drying, bitter tannin so maybe in 15 years the tannin will resolve, the oak will integrate, and a swan will emerge, but this is ugly an oakling right now. Horrible QPR.

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• gigmoney commented:

  1/7/15, 9:42 AM - That sounds terrible. Sorry for your bad experience. I last tasted this a year or so ago, and it was nowhere near the tannic monster you guys experienced. Must have completely shut down. I was really looking forward to a positive note on these.

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