Community Tasting Note

• BadaBingAgain Does not like this wine:

  January 23, 2019 - Way way way too much alcohol for my taste, at least with how it’s applied in proportion to the rest of its parts. Bottle stated 15.5%, but it appeared even more concentrated: 15.5%+ alcohol seams to defy sense and logic, not to mention is sense deadening.
  *I may have had the 2014 rather than the 2015 this was written against, and in checking, the stated alcohol content is 15.8%, which still seams lower than how it comes through in its taste/quaff.
  
  Against my nose and pallet, the alcohol completely dominates everything else, and while it finishes nicely once the alcohol dissipates, by that time the sip has well ended and it’s quality finish is left to act as damage control rather than a complimenting conclusion. Oddly, or not so, it made me think about those who drown great Chinese food in an endless soy sauce pouring; maybe that thought came to mind since I suspect the need for that type of sodium drenching to off set the overbearing alcohol in the wine.
  
  My aunt loved it, as did some others I had it with; so was my loss their gain? If it was, then the wine finally did show some balance to me in the end.
  
  Likely alone in my opinion here I’m sure, and around 140+ bottle, and a sea of better options out there for much less, i can lie and say I’ll be richer for it too.

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