Community Tasting Note

• OenoEd wrote: 90 points

  August 21, 2022 - Cassis, black plum, wet metal, vanilla oak, and inky dark chocolate cherry come through on the nose after 90 minutes in the glass. Before then, too much wet metal and alcohol in the nose to judge. This is a big penetrating CdP, but presents like a wine that’s been worked and manipulated to create that big body, lots of power, minimal grace. Fairly hot and spicy, still tannic, blind I wound have guessed it was a hot vintage Rhône Ranger crafted by a Parker score chaser , big and racy, really concentrated, still young, and still hard to predict whether this improves. I’m guessing it won’t.; it is what it is, probably for 10 years. Not my style. Hard to pair in it’s awkward youth, medicinal with edgy hot iodine, black licorice and distracting acidity, but it surprisingly worked with a variety meat loaf, more than with grilled prime rib eye, which showed it up! Works well,also, with black olives.

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