Community Tasting Note
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Mark1npt Likes this wine: 94 points
April 16, 2020 - Wow, a change from the last bottle, 93-94, no longer a 96!.....more dense, more iron, more black, more thick structure. This is a very well made wine. Decent nose but the fruit has backed up considerably from previous bottles. Quality wine but the best of the sweet fruit is gone. Will it be back in a year? I hope so.......
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MJP Hou TX commented:
4/17/20, 6:12 AM - Mark-I love learning about these transformations in the bottle. I was watching the Vinous interview with Cathy Corision and she talked in detail about drinking windows and how each vintage is so unique. 2016 is a vintage that we will be talking about for a few decades. Also, how some vintages that were not considered so great are just blowing people away right now. 2005, 2009 & 2010. Cheers buddy!
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Mark1npt commented:
4/17/20, 9:09 AM - I do too, MJP......people get so hung up on scores but need to remember, it's a living object and the scores keep moving and changing just as our blood pressure does every day. Scores are only relative for that moment in time where the 'expert' is tasting. I wish there were a way (without having to Coravin) to know for sure when it was time to pop a bottle. So many of these great '16s have shutdown but I've been astounded as to when. They are all over the map. Some shut down last summer, some at Thanksgiving, some in 'early '20 and now others just this week. Similarly, we don't know when they'll be back open for business again! I always count on people here to give a heads up so I try to also when I see it happening. Cheers, pal!
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RoyaltyCoins commented:
4/17/20, 9:56 AM - Thanks for this - I thought about doing a Coravin on another bottle to see where it's at, but will certainly give it another 12-18 months before doing so based on the above.
Regarding the sweetness, this sounds like its just finding its center. I wouldn't worry too much - it's valley floor fruit after all :) -
Mark1npt commented:
4/17/20, 10:08 AM - RC, I don't think we have anything to worry about, this will be back! I've seen more shut down in some of the '16 B Cellars lately too. Curiously, I've had a number of '15s from all different makers, that have been drinking very well lately.