Community Tasting Note

• fc1910 wrote: 91 points

  March 31, 2020 - From half bottle to pair some roasted high class ecological chicken legs,
  overripeness on the nose at first, like some mature Rioja GR, this blows of after an hour, now ripe black fruit, meaty, cigar tobacco,
  right from the start a rich, nearly jammy fruit, blueberry, plums, blackberry, reminds me of an very good Priorato, so this bottle is not a typical classic Bordeaux due to this very unusual vintage and the small format of this bottle, mid- to fullbodied, quiet silky driven, but with a very good structure through the lively tannin, long+ juicy dark fruit finish, I do think now it will start its prime in normal bottles in 3- 5 years, **(**-?), 91-93(+) potential

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3 Comments

• srh commented:

  3/31/20, 1:36 PM - THANK you for the time & effort you took to post your thorough TN! It was also helpful that you made a generalization to the 750 ml size. :)

• fc1910 commented:

  3/31/20, 11:19 PM - Hi SRH,
  thank you for your comment!
  As a winenerd for more than half of my life I am always curious to compare bottlings by bottle size.
  I am sure that bottle size matters evidently! The bigger a bottle the longer you can keep a wine under same conditions.
  So I sometimes use half bottles to get a first glance on a wine and if there is a chance to get some, very often try to purchase Magnums+.
  Luckily there is a case of three MGs of this wine waiting for me!
  
  Magnum+ is best!
  A Champagne, a great Riesling GG, and mature Bordeaux for sure are grateful to be served in big bottles!
  
  And your fellow wine nerds you share this bottle with as well! :)
  Cheers from Hamburg

• srh commented:

  4/1/20, 9:21 AM - "I sometimes use half bottles to get a first glance on a wine and if there is a chance to get some, very often try to purchase Magnums+." fc1910, what an INGENIOUS idea! :)

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