Community Tasting Note

BordeauxNut wrote:

Saturday, August 16, 2008 - St. Louis Saturday Group -- 2000 v 2001 Bordeaux Tasting (Jim Dove's home): The color shows more age than most of the other wines we've tasted. Consistently scored 95 - 98 by all of the tasters (except me), this easily was the favorite of the tasting, beating the next wine by nearly 1.5 points. Apart from me, there were a couple of other comments about raisins and volatility -- but, every other comment was a crude (but somehow effusively positive) sexual reference or some drooling comment about how sexy fruit can be. I dissented because I thought it just wasn't appropriately 'Bordeaux-like' -- being a bit too sweet, hot, and volatile. I can appreciate all of the love it was offered though. This was the only wine that was finished, so I couldn't check in on it the next day. 2 of 11 tasters scored the 2000 higher. Rank: 1/18 Vintage: 2000.1

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