Community Tasting Note
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Rote Kappelle Likes this wine: 90 points
July 17, 2021 - Under cork, of course, so who knows what the next bottle will be like. Opened and decanted about 8 hours before this note.
Colour is deep, brick red, with some fading at rim, as you tilt the glass.
On first opening this wine seemed quite oaky and there was some rich fruit, in the prune spectrum. Now, the wine smells well integrated, fully mature, dominated by aromas of truffle, earth, baked beef bones, some prune elements and a slightly sherried note.
In the mouth the wine delivers flavours dominated by prune, truffle and earth, with oloroso sherry to finish. Tannins remain quite plentiful on the finish, fairly fine but certainly not resolved. This works well with lamb backstrap in a red wine reduction sauce. You might score this a little higher, or a bit lower, depending on how you feel about a wine that is fully mature and how you perceive the tannins and that note of sherry at the end.1,153 views