Community Tasting Note

Saturday, July 7, 2018 - Opened at 2pm & decanted. Back into the btl at 4pm with cork out. Drinking with "the kids" between 6 - 9pm. Overall I found this balanced & restrained with most of its depth and corresponding intrigue submerged right now. Semi opaque ruby color. Smokey dark fruit nose with a hint of tobacco. The palate is mostly savory with earth,mineral and herb notes dominating a measure of dark fruit. Again a hint of tobacco. This is youthfully tight and in need of a good 10 years plus before it really struts its stuff and we know for sure what we bought. Alc 13.5%. This was an exploratory single bottle from my first grandson's birthyear. Otherwise, I'd never touch a Bordeaux younger than 2005 for myself. If I buy more of these it will be on faith as this didn't wow me tonight like it has other tasters here. For me, 90-92pts, right now.

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Comment posted by Mattshank:

11/10/2018 11:10:00 AM - Good note Craig.
Comment posted by chablis28:

11/10/2018 11:24:00 AM - Thanks Matt, hope all is well and your still drinking some good wine!
Comment posted by Mattshank:

11/10/2018 11:59:00 AM - You bet although probably not as good a wine as you have. Would be good to hang out again. Is your cell still ending in the digits 89? Or if you still have your old Frontier mail account? Want to respect confidential info on this public forum.
Comment posted by chablis28:

11/11/2018 6:34:00 AM - yep same cell / new email