Community Tasting Note

• Seth Rosenberg Likes this wine: 95 points

  July 15, 2022 - PnP. Ok wow. This is dark in color and dark on the nose - seamless, dark, sweet, ripe, with perfectly integrated funk and some sort of savory. The fruit is black cherry, blueberry and some blackberry. Very primary but totally intoxicating. Crunchy - almost citric or pie crust. Chalky. Palate: Great entry on and mouthfeel. Dark fruits. Spicy and somewhat funky. Deep. Seamless. Ripe but still light on its feet with great grip and balance. The finish is spicy and dark and the crunchy acids are a little too much right now. I wouldn’t be surprised if this opened and the finish calm down w 2-3 days of air. If so this will be awesome and will bode well for 10-15 years from now. Nose - 5.5/6, Palate - 5-5.5+/6, Finish - 4.5-5+/6, Je ne Sais Quoi - 1-1.5/2 = 16-17.5+/20 (with 17-18/20 potential.).
  
  Day 5: Similar to day one but the fruit has gotten darker - with some cassis as well as the black cherry and blackberry. The funk is there, well integrated, along with some dark florals and some spice and some chalk or clay and some green savory herbal. The palate is just wonderful - full of flavor but balanced and light - with the dark fruit, some funk, the savory green herbal. As predicted, the finish has calmed down and is balanced and integrated - deep and dark and savory with some chalk and a big wave of funk and savory green at the end. So good and amazing value at around $50. I haven't had the 09, but I wonder if this is what the 09 was like young. Nose - 5.5/6, Palate - 5.5/6, Finish - 5/6, Je ne Sais Quoi - 1.5/2 = 17.5/20.

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• Stoic Warrior commented:

  10/13/22, 10:28 AM - Great note. I look forward to opening the first of mine in a year or two.
  
  PS. Looking at some of your other notes, I salute your good fortune and privilege to have tasted that 1934 Heredia/Tondonia Gran Reserva. Respect!

• Seth Rosenberg commented:

  10/13/22, 5:36 PM - Thanks so much for the kind words! If you like my reviews please become a fan!
  
  Yeah - that 34 Tondonia was one of the great wines of my life and part of a incredible Lopez tasting here in NYC back before the wines blew up. I actually found some of the 34 for sale in Switzerland for the equivalent of about $300 a bottle but didn't pull the trigger - now I'll probably never have it again. oh well.

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