Community Tasting Note

• Charlie N Likes this wine: 91 points

  September 6, 2020 - My first Geyserville
  
  Decanted for an hour, decanted back into the bottle and tasted an hour later. Clearly this wine isn't meant to be rushed so I missed out on the better part of half the bottle.
  
  Revisited 5 days later and good lord. No bizarre or particularly unique sensory notes (the usual mint/menthol, spice/pepper, *rich* mocha) but the clarity of expression and depth of articulation this far into the lifetime of this open bottle makes totally apparent the inevitable reward for long-term patience.

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5 Comments

• FredericoWines commented:

  9/7/20, 7:00 AM - OMG, 5 days passed and it still tasted good? Did you use Coravin or something?

• Charlie N commented:

  9/7/20, 11:45 AM - No Coravin, just recorked and kept in the refrigerator.

• Vinomazing commented:

  9/7/20, 8:27 PM - That is awesome and helps confirm my initial exp, so thank you. Did a 10 day test, kept corked and 64 degrees... cheers to the future

• lockestep commented:

  9/9/20, 4:55 AM - Geyserville in good vintages is an incredibly long-lived wine. Tanzer had the 1993 two years ago and wrote it would last another decade. He had the 1970 at the same tasting and noted it was showing beautifully. I try to give these at least a decade before wading in.

• michigan dogs commented:

  9/11/20, 4:24 PM - Geyserville is a go to wine for me, almost every bottle has been great and I am not a zin fan. Great value IMO

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