Community Tasting Note
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blanquito wrote:
July 1, 2019 - Not had this before, but I bought a few of these after reading some enthusiastic notes which made it sound like my kinda old school claret. I gave it a few weeks in the cellar to settle down and then tried one.
I am a devout acolyte of old school Bordeaux, but my bottle of the BAMA 2000 was lacking much in the way of excitement. It showed a lot but not excessive green (which I like), and a dry earthy impression. There were a few fleeting, beguiling glimpses of strawberry, but they weren’t sustained. Not a bad wine at all (though lovers of modern wines would be aghast), but overall a little too austere to get jazzed about.
If served blind, I might have called it a leaner vintage of Sociando, which is fine praise in its own right, but Sociando can be readily found $30-$50 while BAMA routinely runs $65-$75 in the USA. Poor QPR if representative.
I gave this bottle lots of air and followed it over 24 hours, so aeration wasn’t it. Maybe it could use more cellar time, but it didn’t come off as closed up. Sounds like I got an off bottle (?), despite a perfect fill and cork.1 person found this helpful 2,851 views