Community Tasting Note
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wculpepper Likes this wine: 90 points
December 2, 2016 - Quite a different experience than my 10/2/16 tasting. This time I popped and poured, as opposed to decanting and waiting an hour last time. Now I find a mature cab which is not over the hill. Nice blackberry nose, and a balanced medium-bodied palate of dark fruit and ample acids. This is my last bottle, but if I had more, I would drink them soon.
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Baron Slick commented:
12/5/16, 5:18 PM - Good TN. Funny how dissimilar two of the same bottles can show a mere two months apart. I wonder how they would have shown side by side.
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wculpepper commented:
12/5/16, 5:33 PM - It was if these two bottles were "separated at birth" and then stored under quite different conditions. However, I deliberately PnP'd this time to see if too much oxygen may have affected the first bottle. I would, indeed, liked to have seen these two side by side with one decanted and one not.
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Baron Slick commented:
12/5/16, 6:11 PM - Good to know. It's surprising how the decant seemed to kill the first bottle by attrition. Mayacamas always makes old bones, so it's also peculiar that your bottles weren't fresher.