Community Tasting Note

• msuwine wrote: 94 points

  March 14, 2020 - This firehose of a wine should be incredible someday... but not today. It has the ingredients of a great wine - i.e., intense and layered fruit, fresh acidity, ample tannins - but each element is currently a bit too much - i.e., too juicy, too lifted, too grainy, too disjointed, too unformed. I can't wait to try it in 2022, but my recommendation is to wait: it's not worth opening up now.
  
  Dark purple, almost black in color; full in body; enveloping aromas of boysenberry, fresh leather, eucalyptus, and cardamon. Burgeoning but unsettled tastes of blueberry, graphite, crushed rock, and pine needles, with a grippy and biting finish that still carries plenty of sweet fruit. 15% alcohol. Decant 3-4 hours, but ideally wait a few years. 93-94 for now, but huge upside when it integrates and unfolds in 2022 or later.

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