Community Tasting Note

• sid_loves_wine Likes this wine: 95 points

  September 11, 2020 - Bought one again to see if my second experience could live up to the first (see my prior tasting note.) It came close! Although it was a little less memorable and engaging this time, with somewhat less harmonious and powerful structure. It was still super beautiful and I think excellent QPR. There could be some bottle variation - I'm not sure it was only the novelty of it that amazed me more last time, but that could easily play a part too.
  
  Still a very powerfully savory nose - less of the gorgeous forest floor/musty cellar/damp leaves from last time, but plenty of killer meaty, stemmy, almost peppery tones at the fore that were highly evocative of pastrami or even smoked meat. Beneath was a fantastic, deeply-pitched core of fruit, a sort of highly spearmint-and-mineral-laced black cherry, almost like cherry cola, lurking deep down but showing real beauty and even better with a tiny kiss of vanilla oak.
  
  Palate was also a touch less sappy, firm, and electric compared to last time, but still had nice, gently chalky tannins and medium+ acidity, a lot of earthy cherry and high-toned strawberry, fairly tart, but ultimately elegant and enjoyable, even if the slight tartness called out for a good food pairing.
  
  Night 2 was an interesting change, and held up super well over 24 hours - like the first time it got sweeter/less savory, but showed a VERY dark fruit/oak combination that was even closer to warmer-climate new world Pinot, spiced blueberry pie with mint and sweet vanilla oak that tiptoed toward cotton candy (?!) Completely different wine from the stemmy/meaty tones of night 1, but beautiful in its own way. Friendlier tannins and higher minerality but somewhat more tartness. In general this feels higher than 13% ABV, but certainly not overdone.
  
  A damned delicious and complex wine that I'd recommend for slow/contemplative drinking or confident cellaring.

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2 Comments

• mercurius commented:

  7/27/21, 10:46 AM - What shop did you buy this from? Thanks

• sid_loves_wine commented:

  7/27/21, 4:56 PM - I bought it from the Wine Exchange in Santa Ana, which I frequently drove down to when I lived in LA. Doesn't look like they have any in stock, but plenty of other inexpensive Vosne! It's a great store and they do shipping.

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