Community Tasting Note
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JohnnyBark Likes this wine:
June 3, 2020 - Wow, this is a delicious wine. Pop of the cork, was green apple. The palate is very full, expansive and deeply rich. This wine has tremendous acidity and has a really long time to come around and settle down. I detect some slight oxidative notes and a slight hint of reduction, but very slight. I’ve had many bottles of this wine from ‘02 though ‘12 and I find this by far the most fun and exciting. Reminds me a lot of the ‘08 Cristal. For the price, I’d buy this over many other wines.
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6 Comments
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Rallerboy888 commented:
6/4/20, 12:32 AM - Thanks for the great notes! Have you tried the 08, and if so, how do they compare aging wise?
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JohnnyBark commented:
6/4/20, 6:30 AM - I have the ‘08, but it’s at my storage and I haven’t tried it yet. It would be fun to try these side by side. I’m super impressed by this ‘12. It stacks up to all the big house ‘08’s.
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NickA commented:
6/5/20, 2:00 AM - I went out and bought another 12 '08s after I had my first bottle (so 18 in all) as it's my wedding anniversary, but only have 3 '12s - this is whetting my appetite!
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Rallerboy888 commented:
6/5/20, 2:45 AM - That's a solid load of 2008! I only have two, but I wish I had more.
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NickA commented:
6/5/20, 2:48 AM - I don't own more than 12 of any other wine, but figure it would be nice to drink a bottle of the '08 on our anniversary every year :-)
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srh commented:
7/7/21, 4:47 PM - TY for your effort in uploading such a thoughtful analysis of this, JohnnyBark! 🙂 SHOULD you (& any of the other contributors to this strand) be interested, I’ve uploaded info for this vintage which you can peruse at your leisure. 😉