Community Tasting Note

• Cadby wrote: 86 points

  May 2, 2020 - Steven Seagal, slightly entertaining youth, doesn't age well

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9 Comments

• Brian Glas commented:

  5/2/20, 5:42 PM - Your score matches mine. Tasted like the thing is falling apart.

• ddingley commented:

  5/31/20, 1:40 PM - Surprised as the bottle I had this week was in excellent shape. Did you buy from Garagiste?

• Brian Glas commented:

  5/31/20, 2:24 PM - Yes bought from Garagiste

• Cadby commented:

  6/1/20, 6:32 AM - As did I. I purchased a few, and I do not remember the first as being so sloppy.

• ddingley commented:

  6/1/20, 11:29 AM - I'm going with bottle variation. Everyone has a different palate but I think I know what you're talking about and my first of the 3 I bought was quite good. Way better than expected for the price.

• Neecies commented:

  6/1/20, 6:13 PM - I'm laughing thru my tears. Just put away six bottles, untasted. Yes they came from Garagiste. I've put a moratorium on Garagiste purchases before, looks like I must again. Let's all promise to remind ourselves: there's a REASON Garagiste ended up with them. Will report soon on one of mine.

• Cadby commented:

  6/2/20, 7:56 PM - I am a Garagiste believer. I have purchased literally 1,000+ bottles, perhaps 10% "Mystery", and I can count on one hand the # that was fit for the drain and less than 20 that were true disappointments. There have been more that were less than thrilling but were educational. I don't think that I am a fanboy, but I will continue as a user. I do live in the Seattle area, so I benefit from the shipping savings.

• Brian Glas commented:

  6/2/20, 8:15 PM - Agreed. Rimmerman does push some complete $hit but the vast majority of wines I have had from him are good to excellent. Very few are lousy. Within the past year I have gotten many 90+ Oregon Pinots from him that are less than $15. He does have some great closeouts at excellent prices. I will continue to buy as I live in Seattle.

• Neecies commented:

  6/3/20, 8:45 AM - If you already know the wine, then by all means use Garagiste. But I've been burned a lot taking chances on what turned out to be very average wines. THAT SAID, I opened one of these last night. On the nose, baked black cherry and spent coffee grounds. Same on the palate with cigar box and graphite--very Paulliac-ish, which I like a lot. The wine's fully mature and in an interesting way. So many WA wines don't have interesting secondary development, they don't mature they just fade away. This one actually matured.

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