Community Tasting Note

• aagrawal wrote: 84 points

  December 26, 2018 - From a 375. Stood for a month and decanted off fine sediment. Light ruby with age appropriate bricking; moderate intensity aromatics, some floral and rose but more deeper tarry fruit; light bodied, seriously prominent drying tannins, still some fruit but in the background, high acid; drying medium length finish. At age 22+ from half bottle I expected this to be further along, but this is punishing. I don't know what to expect for the future, but this is my only bottle. 82
  With food and 1 hour of air, the tannins definitely moderate. It still comes across as a bit monolithic, but it is more food friendly than anticipated. 84-85

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• Justin S commented:

  12/27/18, 11:06 AM - I was pretty disappointed with this as well. Not sure more time will help at all frankly, but Nebbiolo is a tricky grape sometimes. Maybe it needed a much longer decant than I was able to provide (90 minutes before tasting), but it didn't seem to be getting better as it sat in the glass during dinner either.

• aagrawal commented:

  12/27/18, 11:19 AM - Yes, I agree. I didn't have the time for a long decant either, but people who I trust have previous notes on this wine with a 12 hour decant and it sounds like their impressions were similar.

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