Community Tasting Note

• csimm wrote: 92 points

  November 24, 2021 - Big boned and beefy, with a bit of a grapey mid-palate that is luckily saved by some extra intensity and frame, the Honey Bunny is a predictable but pretty tasty Paso purple bumpkin. It’s a bit one-note, but that note has decent yum factor. Blackberry, plum, and some faint, faint roast beef. Hold for another 5+ years in hopes of more nuance. 91-92 points.

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• Cyclist commented:

  11/25/21, 7:19 AM - Nice! Hitting those Paso sites! I love a good Fulldraw, I find Fulldraw needs at least a few years in bottle to start becoming more nuanced and approachable as you noted as well. I just had a 2016 hard point Grenache that was singing. But the 2018/2017s were still locked up tight in tannic prison. I’m actually opening a bottle of their Mourvèdre one off today, I find it much more approachable and less beast-like. I wasn’t planning on doing any decanting magic, will see if I regret that haha.

• csimm commented:

  11/25/21, 7:41 AM - I have a bottle of the 2018 MEM that I’m sitting on, but thought the Honey Bunny might be more open for business... So I gave it a shot. It was only “kinda” interested in showing its hand. It was in a “fine” place overall I suppose (after three hours of decanting), but no fireworks nor real sense of varietal complexity at the moment. Fairly primary and one-note. Kinda hard to read really. Enjoyable and all but without an emotional connection for me. It seems well made, but I would’ve liked to have seen at least some more clues to greatness in the future. That said, I do think time will definitely help to fan out its flavor profile and hopefully create some sense of layering here.

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