Community Tasting Note

• Paul852 Likes this wine: 90 points

  December 26, 2019 - With thanks to BillLowney (see his TN below) I decanted this for more than two hours before I started to drink. This was clearly a good idea: initially the tannins were overpowering, but by about 2.5 hours they had mellowed substantially.
  
  The wine is then classic middle-aged claret: dark fruit on the nose, more of the same plus leather and pencil shavings on the palate, blanced nicely by moderate- acidity, and moderate tannins which linger on the moderate+ finish.
  
  It's all rather nice. A food wine, obviously, and not one for fruit-bomb lovers. Pretty good QPR for ~US$22.

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