Community Tasting Note

• Milliontown wrote: 93 points

  October 15, 2021 - Gifted from the family cellar, this bottle unlabelled but wax sealed and caked in dust. Fortunate enough to have this special birth year vintage of this same wine twice now. And looking back at my previous note, this is pretty similar.
  Brown colour, no redness left, just a very faint orange. Transparent, very light, almost looks like a rosé. Heaps of sediment. Unlike my last bottle which was shared among 4 people and consumed fairly quickly, this was given a few hours in the glass to open up. At first, it's just very dried out with a strong savoury note, underlined by some old-bottle VA, bit of a shoe-polish thing. As it unfurls, more prunes come to the fore, dried flowers, other secondary/tertiary notes of liquorice and smoked meats. I could use lots of descriptors but none of them would be fruits.
  
  It's past it's best honestly. Would have been at peak 10-15+ years ago in my opinion, although I still enjoyed it as a curiosity and peek into history. Still has some structure, some zingy acid. Interesting, very distinctive aromas, hard to compare to anything else. The smoked meats thing I have encountered in old Best's PM before, so I'm happy it still had some varietal character to express.

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