Community Tasting Note

• Monaco Likes this wine: 95 points

  August 7, 2015 - Opened and decanted at the restaurant. Cork was more saturated than I was expecting and broke in half even with the Somm's Ah-So. Luckily he was able to corkscrew the base out cleanly without losing any cork into the bottle. It was then decanted through a strainer for sediment, although there turned out to be very little.
  
  Initially this wine was completely closed. Nose was flat and musty. Initial tasting impressions were gloomy; the thought that the bottle may have been corked even crossed my mind.
  
  About two hours after decanting it started to come alive. The barnyard nose burnt off and the typical St. Estephe profile came through. Pepper, smoke and dark fruit.
  
  In the end I thought this beat out the '89 Angelus - but just by a hair. 95 points

  5,751 views

Add a Comment