Community Tasting Note

• Cabfrancophile wrote: 89 points

  January 10, 2009 - Nice QPR. Ripe blackberries, dried fruit and cassis on the nose. Well balanced palate. Concentrated and fruit forward with good acidity and soft tannins. No heat on finish even though alcohol is almost 15%. Good example of what old vines can do; intensity and lush mouth feel from alcohol, but you don't smell/taste the alcohol. Reminded me a bit of some old vine Zins, but with softer tannins and less outright jammyness. Lack of complexity prevents this from being a superior wine.
  
  Decanted about 45 minutes. Lots of sediment in the bottle. Not much evolution over a couple of hours. Drinking well right now, though maybe more bottle age will allow complexity to develop.

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