Community Tasting Note

Mike Kopanski wrote:

Saturday, February 4, 2012 - Giant Wine Sale & Tasting 2/4/2012 (Cellar on Greene, Columbia, SC): This is delicious. Maybe not for everybody, but if you want a big thick juicy wine, this is it. Their style of ripe, high alcohol, fruit forward, deep, brooding wines is somewhat like an Australian Shiraz. There is definitely a time and a place for these wine, like steak time. There is a lot going on here. Whether you like it or not, we can spend several minutes talking about the flavors, aromas, and mouth feel of this wine. It starts out with deep rick purple color. The nose is almost crowded with all the good stuff we expect from Cabernet, starting with super ripe and rich big black fruit, then there is big vanilla, lead pencil, toasty oak, brown spice, herbs, green pepper, and cassis. The fruit is what you expect from 15.5% alcohol wine, very ripe, explosive black berry and black cherry. Rich and full in the mouth, but still surprisingly elegant. This is kind of young, I suspect the oak will integrate more with bottle time. Very civilized tannins. Moderate acidity. The finish is a little candied with big black fruit, hints of caramel, licorice, graphite, and black pepper.

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