Community Tasting Note

• fingers wrote: 84 points

  November 7, 2020 - My final bottle and deservedly so. It had another compromised closure with an 80% saturated cork, which is surprising given the size and cosmetics of it, but no doubt that it contributes to the variability and accelerated decline of these wines. The color is rusty garnet with a good amount of sediment floating in the wine. The nose has taken on more mushroom earthiness and lost some florals that translates equally on the palate. There is still good acid/tannin/mineral structure, but the bouquet is on the fade. At this point it’s an $80 wine to match with $8 pizza.
  The CT drinking window goes out to 2030 on this, but I don’t think that factors in the cork issues so I say get after it now.
  3+11+14+6= 84

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• WineGuyDelMar commented:

  11/7/20, 12:40 PM - Maison Ilan was such a great story just to turn into the disaster it became. I’m glad I missed all of this. Sometimes things just happen.

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