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For the Love of Wine Likes this wine: 90 points
November 22, 2018 - Mini vertical of Futo wines (06, 07 and 09). All wines were slow oxidized (cork removed for 2-3 hours) and the 07 and 09 received an additional couple hours in a decanter, with the 06 receiving around 30 minutes prior to the initial pour. Some in the group thought this wine was corked. My palate is not as sensitive to slight cork as others, and I would have said this wine was not corked at all. I did not get anything indicating cork on the nose, nor on the palate. Having said that though, this was my least favorite of the three. The fruit seemed faded and continued to fade throughout the night. While the wine showed integration and arguably secondary or tertiary notes, I need a healthy dose of primary notes and flavors to truly enjoy a wine. This wine was perhaps the most complex, in terms of bouquet and flavor, but for me, the lack of fruit or primary flavor takes this wine down a notch. With more fruit, this wine would have shown much better (maybe the lack of fruit was due to slight corking, or due to the age-ability of the wine. Whatever the reason, I found this enjoyable, but a distant third in the flight. Like the other wines, it lacked QPR (even more so than the other vintages). A good, solid wine, but my least favorite of the three.
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