Community Tasting Note

• Tony Molester wrote:

  May 26, 2020 - Single piece cork, no sign of seepage. 20% saturation.
  decanted, tasted over 3 hours with dinner
  
  This wine had a considerable time to wake up. Sadly it never really showed much of itself.
  It was ripe fruited, blackberries, some herbs, some secondary development with balsamic notes. But well and truly tasted disjointed and underwhelming, not of a place. It didn’t have the briskness i associate with many chianti wines I’ve tasted in the last 20 years, but moreover its oak treatment imparts a sweetness that i found quite distracting.
  
  Certainly plenty of people would disagree, but this failed to light any fires on this occasion.
  14% abv

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3 Comments

• chatters commented:

  5/26/20, 7:59 PM - Cracking note - do you think the bottle had just not been treated well?

• Tony Molester commented:

  5/26/20, 8:24 PM - Auction purchase so it’s anyone’s guess but the capsule suggests it was reasonable. Fill was good, cork was moist and supple, and no trace of seepage. I largely buy on auction and have had few disapointments in that regard. I am of the opinion that a well made wine at 20 years should generally show well or show past its prime. This had little to show despite some evidence of development.

• chatters commented:

  5/26/20, 8:45 PM - that is frustrating - yes, I'm with you on mostly buying on the secondary market and also, mostly, not really experiencing disappointments.

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