Community Tasting Note

Frank Murray III wrote:

Sunday, January 26, 2014 - First bottle of two, having not realized until now that I had let these sit since the original shipment. Open about 1/2 hour, shows some metal shaving on the aromatic and then the lush, fruit packed palate of Montafi. Wow, this is stacked with flavor, that brambly, dark fruited thing that Mike does with this vineyard, yet he gets acid into the wine, too. In terms of acidity, not say 2011 vintage Carlisle but this is more like 2009, showing the richness and heady profile and yet if you asked me to find an aromatic or flavor flaw, I can't--no booze, no oaky tones, just plush, juicy and like fresh picked dark fruit. And in this vintage, whatever the % component may be, the petite shows through, as it has some Switchback Ridge tones inside the palate, that lovely thing petite does. And, in reading Mike's tasting note on the wine from his wbe page, the remark about peach, you know, that is dead on. Can't say I've identified this quality in zin before but that expression is here. I paired this with a butternut squash risotto with sage... marvelous! Drinking great now too, BTW!

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