Community Tasting Note
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CamWheeler wrote: 92 points
September 12, 2017 - Negociants Australia Portfolio Tasting 2017: Earth and smoke, raspberry, cherry, violets and meaty elements. Complex but also youthful - very savoury/smoky profile. Excellent!
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Kirk Grant commented:
4/15/18, 4:34 AM - Cam, these wines are just starting to turn the corner into old age...if there's any indication of the life on these from the 90's based on the bottles I've tasted from the 80's they still have a long, long life ahead of them. It does seem that there was also a minor stylistic shift around 2001 in Musar that I started to note the wines seem a bit "cleaner" which for Musar I have no clue how to qualify. Thanks for sharing the note. Based on what you've shared I'll probably leave my 99's alone and look back to the 95's the next time I'm ready to have a Musar.
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CamWheeler commented:
4/15/18, 4:39 AM - I served a bottle of the '99 blind to my tasting group and I think everyone was thinking <10 years old rather than ~20 - agree that good bottles should have a whole lot of time left. Will be interesting to see what happens to the newer vintages as time goes on and how the cleaner style might impact their interest with age.