Community Tasting Notes 15

• Rollerball wrote:

  December 21, 2023 - Tried over 48 hours after pouring into a glas.vin decanter (where 750mL sits at largest diameter of the bowl). The last glass (at 48 hours) was best. This wine needs a ridiculous amount of oxygen to soften its abrasive notes and fully come together. Drink now with two days in the decanter or try again in 2026.
  
  Here were the specific notes over two days of tasting:
  
  *Upon opening* there was less reduction than in prior bottles — maybe the 2017 is coming around — and still an incredibly complex bouquet and palate. Floral and mineral with hints of high toned fruits, but otherwise very hard to pin down, incredibly long and complex and changing and challenging through its length.
  
  *At 4 hours in the decanter*: not getting much. nose is beautifully floral but so subtle. The hard-to-access palate is balanced but again elusive.
  
  *10 hours*: Smells like fire, violet petals, paper, wintergreen candy corn, and singed flesh. Very very mineral. The flavors on the attack are rough: it’s a lemon drop triangle of bitter tartness. A shy sweetness briefly peeks out.
  
  *At 24 hours in the decanter*: the bouquet offers dark roast coffee and distant suggestions of lavendar and blueberry; a touch of sweetness emerges in the form of whispering mint and raw vanilla bean; then brewed soy and a touch of tropical fruit; black olive. Again very hard to pin down. The palate is fascinating but not fun–like a mild electronic fence–and it's like a whiskey in that once the shock fades the flavors reveal themselves, and here they are balanced and mouth-watering but entirely stone-like.
  
  *33 hours*: Best palate impression yet. Those rocks are becoming cool and soft to touch; less abrasive.
  
  *48 hours*: Still on the rise. Everything coming together. No sense of oxidization whatsoever.

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• bobbylion Likes this wine: 91 points

  August 11, 2023 - Growing on me. After a night in the fridge for half bottle from yesterday, it is sort of a cross between trousseau and light Swiss Pinot
  Very gentle and elegant with lingering light berries aftertaste. Enough structure to go for 5 years more.

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• Jimothy Brown wrote: flawed

  July 17, 2022 - Pale garnet colour. Nose hard to pin down, tertiary aromas. Interesting. Palate complex, again hard to pinpoint flavours, but lifted and ethereal, herbs and aromatics. Didn’t really gain complexity over the evening (3.5hours). Maybe should’ve decanted as others mentioned? Just popped and poured.

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• Rollerball wrote:

  February 28, 2021 - The bouquet is deep and pretty. The palate is ultra complex; hard to pin down. Beautiful but unsparing, it's not really fruit-driven; but it offers a great sense of interplay of flavors and impressions that upon revisiting the bouquet you realize were there--or even predominant--all along. Beguiling. a shape shifter. As the tiny berries, tonic, and wildlflowers fade, the juicy finish becomes less like fruit and more like the juice of blue slate, and not just in flavor but also in the way it crosses its arms sternly. It's not insatiability here but curiosity and an almost frustrating desire that keeps you knocking at the door. The captivating tension is not just disatisfying, it's almost rude.
  
  Decanted for 22 hours; 6 should be your minimum at this point. Drink 2021 (with lots of aeration) or better 2023 through 2027.

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• bobbylion Likes this wine: 90 points

  January 31, 2021 - Reminds me of lighter German or Swiss „burgundies“. Nice, but, just like with Palo Blanco white from them, you can get better wines for the price from actual Burgundy

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• Vintage 2017
• Type Red
• Producer Envinate
• Varietal Red Blend
• Designation Taganan
• Vineyard Parcela Margalagua
• Country Spain
• Region Canary Islands
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation n/a

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