Community Tasting Note

• Purple Tooth wrote: 93 points

  August 28, 2019 - Very good at opening, with typical strong 1986 super dark iron clad fruit and thickness. Aromas of strong tobacco leaf and stewed red fruit dominate this muscular wine and show the same on the palate. It was exhaling and getting better and better and getting me very excited, but after about 3 hours, it started fading and getting disjointed and watering down. This is a good example of how some of the great wines of 1986 can't withstand the time needed to overcome the stubbornness of the tannic structure of the vintage. I would say drink this with no hurry over next 5 to 7 years, but, drink it swiftly without over swirling and over waiting. Drink

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