Community Tasting Note

msuwine wrote:

Friday, February 28, 2020 - This wine has opened, matured, and faded in the three years since I tasted it last (12/16 - 96 points). This is now a more red-fruited, earthy, and restrained wine, without the buoyant ripe and chocolatey notes of its youth. To be sure, one person's mature wine is another's aged wine, and I confess to not being sure which is which here. I like it, but not as much as I liked it in 2016 - something that may say as much about me (now or then) as it does about the wine (now or then).

The wine is less intense than I remember it, with a lighter red color and a more medium-bodied profile. The aromas now include warm gravel and rosemary, without the licorice notes from years ago. The flavors, too, are more earthy, with notes of blueberry tart, black cherry, anise, and mushroom, with a more grainy and rustic finish. 14.8% alcohol.

This has aged with balance: no alcohol or tannin or acidity poke through at the eight-year mark. Still, I think this is a few years past its sweet spot for me, though others will surely enjoy its more Old World, savory profile. I find it tasty, but too subdued. For my palate, I'd drink in the next few years.

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