Community Tasting Note

jour-et-nuit wrote:

Sunday, January 14, 2024 - First bottle of an OWC-12. I bought the case on the clear recommendation of the Southwold Tasting "2012 Ten Years On" reported by Thomas Parker and published on 4th February 2022.
In fact, this bottle leaves me a little bit perplexed. The nose is fine and impressive (Merlot). It reminds me rather of right bank Pomerol.
But after this pretty entry, what happens then ? Hm, the wine is not green or hollow; but maybe a little weak in the middle. And the finish is hard and in fact quite short and tannic. These impressions only changed a single iota with more air (retasted some hours on the same evening and then after 24 and 48 hours and finally on the third day).

So either the wine is still too young to put everything in harmony and one has to be patient or this is the modern style of Meyney which you can't compare to the older vintages. (cf. the vertical MEYNEY-tasting 1954-2017: "Keine graue Maus mehr: Chateau Meyney 1954 – 2017", 12. November 2020 / Sebastian Schwander - https://mybestwine.ch/frankreich/reports-bordeaux/keine-graue-maus-mehr-chateau-meyney-1954-2017/

Or, there is some bottle variation ... and you try to be lucky with the next bottle!

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