Community Tasting Note

• Der Weingelehrte wrote: 95 points

  April 14, 2017 - Continues to show itself to be a spectacular wine with age. Beautiful, balanced ripeness is ever present in the wine. Blackberry, blueberry, leather, hint of smoke and pepper. This bottle direct from Fontodi's library stock. A roomful of somms blown away by how well this bottle was showing.
  
  Does not express as much olive and dried/smoked meat as you might find in a comparable wine from the Northern Rhone (some folks liked that fact; I like really enjoy N. Rhone typicity as well as the character that this wine presents). That said, this is unmistakably Syrah - majority of folks in the room tasting this blind identified it as ripe vintage Hermitage or St. Joseph.

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