Community Tasting Note
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RGCM Gananda Likes this wine: 92 points
September 26, 2019 - Prior bottle was almost exactly two years ago and the wine has improved noticeably in that time. Nose continues to show red cherry, iron, leather and spices. Between medium and full bodied now with a flavor profile that continues to be red cherry and red berry upfront with a good blend of brightness and openness, adding lightly tart red cherry towards the back and finishing with minerals, earth, spices and a touch of leather. Where this wine has improved is in the mid-body, which showed considerably more roundness and balance than previously. The backside is better integrated and the spices, tannins and acidity are all much more in balance with the fruit. The result is a wine that feels more open, more polished and more accessible. In prior bottles, the structural notes could sometimes overwhelm the fruit, but it's clearly trending in a good direction now. Next bottle for me will be Fall 2020, but I suspect this wine still has a good number of years ahead of it.
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