Community Tasting Note

• Wine Canuck wrote: 94 points

  July 3, 2022 - An Epic Summer Wine Weekend; 7/1/2022-7/3/2022 (Muskoka, Ontario, Canada): Tasted again with consistent notes. This pours light ruby in the glass. The nose is pungent, aromatic, expressive and complex, showing red currant, pomegranate, sassafras, grapefruit zest, fresh ginger, and a gorgeous ripe sweet strawberry note. The palate is gorgeous showing loads of ripe red fruit on entry, with an almost salty grapefruit zest edge augmented with a touch of ginger. The palate turns to a velvety texture showing medium minus tannin, medium acid and a lengthy finish the replays much of the nose. The wine is truly lovely and wide open today from the initial pop and pour. The 2019 vintage continues to impress at this youthful stage and features just beautiful optimally ripe and wide open fruit. I suspect this will age spectacularly well as the secondary and tertiary elements come forward, likely picking up another point or two as it ages. But it's also irresistible today. Possibly the best Chandon de Brailles I've ever had. I poured this blind for the group and they unanimously guess it was a restrained new world (California) producer and were surprised it was Burgundy. I think they all didn't like it as much as me feeling the fruit was too abundant. I think age will be in this wine's favour and in 20 - 30 years it could really impress. 94 may be a bit aggressive, but I really believe in the potential here.

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• JJYoyo commented:

  9/25/22, 8:24 AM - Fwiw I agree wholeheartedly with your assessment. It has a lot of fruit because it is still so young. To me it doesn’t taste like a CA pinot at all - maybe you could convince me blind that it was one of the fresher Oregon Pinots but a little time in the glass will in my view indicate Burg. I also think the potential is there for something great with a little cellar time. Thanks for the thoughtful and detailed TN!

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