Community Tasting Note

HowardNZ wrote:

Monday, September 10, 2018 - Two Piemontese, too much oak?: Decanted and given seven hours air before being served open. A bouquet of melted road tar, earth, blackberries, cooked meat juices and bonfire, but with a dominant note of polished mahogany (showing oak artefact). In the mouth, huge black fruit concentration and power. Olive tapenade, charred barbequed steak, blackberries and blackcurrants, tar and mocha. However, for me, it’s the wall of French oak tannins that dominates, particularly on the back palate and bitter finish, overpowering the excellent fruit. It’s impressive but too oak dominated for me. Thinking back to other ultra-modernists I’ve had from the early 1990s, I’d cellar a bottle of this Clerico for 12-15 more years. I’d worry whether the fruit would survive that long … If your tolerance for oak tannins is higher than mine your drinking window would, obviously, start earlier.

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