Community Tasting Note
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NPWolfe wrote: 90 points
March 19, 2009 - Every year when I fill out my NCAA bracket I call a friend of mine who is a Wall Street Quant by profession and as a hobby a basketball sabermatrician. The conversation generally goes on a lot longer than I want with discussions of regression analysis, Sagarin, kenpom, bell curve fat tails, match ups, etc. Since he always wins which ever basketball pool he enters, I endure the discussions with grace while slowly getting his picks. One of the statistics that he follows is what he calls the Big Boy Comparison. It is a lot like the Sagarin version of how a team plays against the top 50. His premise is that a true judgment of a team can only be made against quality competition. That strikes me as true for wine also and is the best arguement I can think of for drinking quality wines. Until you have drunk a great expression of grape and place it is very hard to establish the quality and artistic continuum to judge other wines. At least that is the excuse I am making to myself to justify the better wines I have been drinking since joining CellarTracker.
This is one of the few times where I have had a white wine that I thought I drank way too soon. This wine seems to have all the stuff and the right balance to get better with time. Lemon aromas and the clotted cream nose that I always associate with fine Burgundies. After about an hour the nose shifted to a very strong cinnamon toast with butter smell that had me inhaling deeply. Lemon marmalade and spice flavors both sweet and sour. Other flavors of pie crust, apricots, and figs. Somehow the wine pulls off being big and delicate at the same time. Crisp acidic finish that turned soft and lingering with a lemon glow. After two hours of drinking over a lingering dinner the wine was still just as enjoyable as when it was opened.3,975 views