Community Tasting Note
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Rezy13 Likes this wine: 95 points
February 1, 2015 - Super Bowl 2015 (Roswell, GA): Dense chocolate core with garnet rim; earth, tart, currant, cherry, orange oil, tobacco, some Brett; fleshy, silky initially, luxurious, grainy tannin comes in later, strong mid-palate, funk, medicinal; very good but not a wine I could drink a ton of because of the lower acid; voted WOTN.
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djt1956 commented:
2/10/15, 6:36 PM - This past New Years Eve I couldn't drink much of my bottle either. This particular bottle overwhelmingly tasted of cow patties but I guess the politically correct term is saddle sweat. After about half an undrinkable glass the rest of the bottle went down the drain. I don't know why I am telling you this other than the whole experience pissed me off. I have 3 bottles left and assume this experience repeats itself since these bottles are of the same lot. Great! WOTN .. your lucky!!
And while I'm at it. I would recommend to anyone reading this note and thinking of purchasing these bottles without perfect storage provenance to think twice before laying down 500+. These bottles are potential brett bombs just waiting to happen. Caveat Emptor ... really. -
Rezy13 commented:
2/10/15, 9:16 PM - Thanks for the note. I can empathize with that!
A lot of times I say funk, cow pie, barnyard or sweaty horse saddle. In Pauillac it's cow pie but it's not from Brett and there are other soil driven notes that can be funk but not Brett. This bottle showed some Brett with a bitter note that detracts from the fruit a bit and I get a certain sensation on my tongue. I envision dank, dirty cellars with barrels needing to be replaced (not going to name any ames...Pegau...Bonneau) and think of how beautiful these wines would be without it.
Just a note, provenance would not attribute to this scourge. It is an anaerobic yeast that gets put into the bottle with the wine. Just like cork taint, individuals may have an unfair amount of bottles with these flaws in their cellars, but they have no bearing in spawning them. Sorry if I'm being preachy.
This bottle was great, but it was a reluctant 95. To many not sensitive to Brett or odd balls that like it, this would have been 100 points.
Anyway, cheers to clean bottles!