Community Tasting Note

• RiedelBeagle wrote: 94 points

  September 8, 2008 - I reluctantly picked this wine from a restaurant wine list, knowing it was too young to drink. It worked out okay. It started to hit its stride about 20 minutes after being poured into a large decanter, combining nice mossy forest-floor Hermitage funk with bacon and coffee notes. At 45 minutes post-decanting, it was at its peak, when some fantastic fruit started showing, along with mint, on top of everything else that had been there previously. Very powerful, masculine wine, yet beautifully complex. 95-point wine, as far as I'm concerned. But the wine declined pretty quickly. By about one hour 15 minutes, all that was left was the Hermitage funk. Still nice, but now far from spectacular.

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