Community Tasting Note

chablis28 wrote:

Monday, December 23, 2013 - Was this a matter of low expectations and trepidation, or was I actually wowed by this wine? I'm going with wowed! A promising dark fruit, cedary, creosote nose upon opening led to the first surprise....it wasn't at all jammy or heavy. Instead, rather sleek, defined and weightless! No heavy handed blackberry flavors like so much new world malbec. Layers of dark chocolate, expresso, raspberries and a wisp of minerality. Blind, I might guess this as Pessac. This had uncommon range of flavor and intensity for ...malbec. Still, its malbec, and I don't like malbec, right? So, I'll only give it 92pts even though it probably deserves a higher score. At $23 I'll buy another and see if I hate the next one and this was only an aberration. Paired with a hearty dish of goulash.PnP

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