Community Tasting Note

• olemski wrote: 88 points

  October 27, 2021 - Double decanted about 100 minutes before tasting. Smell of strawberries and liquer. A bit of furniture polish, with good grip and fine fruit with plenty of refinement. The precision is the outstanding feature of this wine, but the notes of oak (or something oak-like) on the aftertaste and the lack of any full integration of the alcohol detract from what would have been an outstanding wine, but which is now excellent. (Note that I now use the scale as it was intended, rather than as the inflated scale it has become. This wine is excellent, so should have something like 88-89 "Very Good to Excellent (85-89)").

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• cfk49 commented:

  10/27/21, 10:39 AM - Not much new oak used at Barthod -- about 30+/-%. After 19 years, I'd be surprised if what you think is perceptible oak is really that. Perhaps reduction, if the wine had not breathed long enough.

• olemski commented:

  10/27/21, 12:32 PM - I should have added that the wine was double decanted about an hour earlier. I shall see if I can edit.

• J @ y H @ c k commented:

  11/17/21, 9:54 AM - I tried to fight the good fight on inflated points 10 years ago because 89 was the high end of good to excellent, but I gave up when I was always averaging down the scores on a wine that I really liked. I have four of these that I bought at auction that I have not opened. Perhaps I will open one and see if your oak note was bottle-specific or perhaps my oak tolerance (I am a big red Cali lover) is higher than yours.

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