Community Tasting Note

• Cailles wrote: 97 points

  November 26, 2020 - Tasted twice with consistent notes. This is a stunning wine. The hillside location works great in hot years like 2015 to counterbalance the ripeness and keep the wine fresh. In better, fresher years like 2016 the site excells even more. This has it all, the complexity, the superb delineation, the elegance, the balance and length. Will it reach the level of the Wines from this site produced in the 60s and 70s? Probably not but it has the structure to age gracefully for some decades. 97+ points.
  
  TN: Intoxicating nose full of fresh ripe blackberries, cassis, well-integrated oak notes, hints of vanilla, spices, smoke and an intense minerality. Broadly layered, very precise, high intensity without being overbearing. High intensity and concentration on the palate with layers and layers of black fruits, fresh minerality, tobacco, smoke, fine oak influences, spices, forrest floor. Very complex and highly precise, ripe but still very pure and fresh. Fresh and creamy structure. A wall of very fine tannins, high and perfectly integrated acidity. Very long, fine fruit and tobacco driven finish. The alcohol, apparent in the Zalto Universal, is perfectly masked in the Zalto Bordeaux glass.
  
  Decanting: PnP, good from the go, no extensive decanting needed.

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2 Comments

• MJP Hou TX commented:

  11/26/20, 8:45 AM - Another helpful review. Thanks for the TN's Cailles.

• FJM185 commented:

  11/27/20, 5:57 PM - Thank you for the TN!

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