Community Tasting Note

• tak4 Likes this wine: 89 points

  February 16, 2019 - Popped and decanted and tasted immediately.
  
  Ruby with brick notes. Wine is a little turbid.
  
  Nose of mint leaves, funk, cherry, plus tertiarty notes of leather.
  
  On palate, wine is sound. Tertiary flavors really come through, especially the leather. Very rounded mouthfeel. Low-medium acid, softened aged tannins, medium alcohol, long finish. Definitely funkier than an aged Bordeaux but not unpleasantly so. Over time some raw cigar tobacco came out.
  
  I respect this wine but I don’t love it. The funkiness is, based on my reading on Musar, a typical stylistic feature of the wine but it’s not my preferred approach. I won’t be buying cases and cases of this but I will give full props to those who do.

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