Community Tasting Note

Mark wrote:

Friday, January 27, 2006 - Shawn dropped by and we decided to open up something old from CA and Bordeaux. We picked up a 84 BV off the shelf with low expectations (I had never had it before). Much better than I expected actually. On opening, it showed a single focused high pitched cheery note which receded after about half an hour. That one component dominated the nose with a very thin in the middle palette and the mouth and slightly metallic nature. After an hour, it was a different wine. The nose grew in intensity with smoke, caramel, burnt elements and a slight medicinal note (although much less than most older BV’s). The impressive things is that the intensity didn’t let up after five hours, it was pretty much as it was at hour one, long after the Meyney was pronounced dead, the BV was drinking well. This wine is not for everyone, if you don’t appreciate older CA cabs, then burnt, musty, muddy earthy nature of this wine will not be appealing, but I didn’t think it was all that bad.

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