Community Tasting Note
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jdtonic wrote: 99 points
May 11, 2019 - Hot day errands are slow, troubling, and truly impossible except wine-related, flustered, sad, only Road Warrior understands—decided to grab my next to last ‘89 Clinet just because I needed help. (And the accursèd bacteria mauled last one)
WOW.
This wine is a special animal, which I don’t know if the literature is up upon, but it made me smile with its heady brooding right bank menace of blackest oily soil and like animal musk swigging right out the fresh open canister on the 101.
(Oh, I’m the guy in that beat-up 87 Celebrity that torches you so-called racer kids routinely, and bullies you self-righteous slowpoke old sad-sacks out of the kill lane.)
The fascinating thing was to see if those electric red berries would appear out of the (clearing) fog of heavy red earth, plums steadily morphing from stewed and red to fresh and black and various leathery woody shrubbery minerals and fleeting florals yellow and green medicinal. (Animale is somehow a nasal resolution of medicinal.) (mayhap)
So...
Seed by the roots came on the JD radio around SFO and that swig was where those Clinet berries started to emerge. They were spectacular in the swig around Brannan and 3rd, and I sat in my car in the heat at the palace hotel, knowing I’d be far more generous than anyone at Flatiron deserves. Just like a lingonberry/wild strawberry hybrid of a most particular and precise bright red flavor.
One 750 left.
98-99pts.
[If you think you know pomerol, and have not tasted at length ~and perhaps alone~ the 1989 Clinet, set about this necessary chore asap.]
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