Community Tasting Note
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Rob Hansult Likes this wine: 96 points
May 1, 2021 - 3rd of a very nice St Emilion flight. Got about 90 min air before diving in.
Still a fairly huge color; very deep ruby/garnet.
From the 1st sniff, you know this is a work of art.
Nose > Aromatic, round, rich, fat, lush, silky velvet.
The huge, intense black fruit of its youth is now vying with gorgeous secondary & tertiary aromas.
Perfect, rich black cherry, blackberry, loganberry, boysenberry, pungent ultra-ripe choke-cherry, with black truffle, soy, & smoky fine grain oak.
Big, intense & insanely complex.
Palate > Great volume, verging on huge.
No sharp edges whatsoever. Above all satin silky, lush, creamy, full & fat.
Tannins are rich, ripe, lush & smooth. Good, balanced, integrated, unobtrusive acidity.
The same big, intense, ripe, lush, silky fruit aromas follow through in the mouth, & add some sweet, sappy licorice-like minerality.
Black truffle in spades, with soy, & hint of mildly pungent BBQ sauce.
Great length, depth & intensity.
Finishes with the proverbial peacocks tail, with all the gorgeous components echoing & reverberating on the extended finish.
A great, completely spherical wine.
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