Community Tasting Note

Vinacull wrote:

Sunday, April 13, 2008 - Score reflects the average of the last five bottles of a half case. If you love blackberries, you'll adore this wine. Decant, 30min wait, pour. Color is dark purple almost black, like the color of blackberry juice. Nose is effusive with blackberries fresh from the vine and to a much (much) smaller degree blueberries, a little cinammon and tar. The nose on this wine has changed since the last bottle 6-7 months ago and is now showing more of the 15.0% alcohol. After three hours in the decanter the fruit is muted and the alcohol is more prominent. The fruit is huge, with a deep core of blackberries dumping across the tongue and settling in layer after layer for a finish of about 25 seconds, and some black pepper on the tail end. In previous bottles there was a pleasant low level astringency to the tannins that made me think of chewing blackberry seeds, but I don't detect it this time. Will drink the last bottle within a year because I don't see this evolving. A very good QPR if only for the sheer intensity of fruit.

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