Community Tasting Note
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Trickyone wrote:
June 20, 2015 - Bought this bottle on Thursday, and decided to liberate it on Saturday. A bit of sediment in the bottle suggested decanting, so I did so about an hour before giving it a try. The cork was sound but remarkably difficult to remove and had an unbelievably dark bit of residue on its business end. Bouquet was not forthcoming, so I agitated the wine a little in the decanter by swirling it as if it were a glass. This helped a little, and some strong Cabernet started to come through, but without any of the notes I recalled as being typical of Margaux's AOC (earth, cedar, etc.). Sure enough, upon tasting the wine seemed to have lost a good bit of its fruit and was a little astringent. The best word I could come up with to describe it was "ungracious". My guess is that, even though the alcohol was just above 13%, Palmer attempted to make an over-extracted fruit-forward monster. Wines like that can be great to taste when young, but with some bottle age they can lose their appeal. Give me a wine with less manipulation in the processing every time. The wine certainly wasn't bad, but I wish I'd had it as a younger pup.
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