Community Tasting Note

dcwino wrote:

Monday, December 16, 2019 - A small impromptu dinner - 08 Champagne and Chateau Margaux (Clarity - Vienna, Virginia): Very youthful expressive nose displaying ripe concentrated black fruit, crème de cassis, blackberry, showing more plum than the others, roasted fruit, also a hint of green, cedar, lead pencil, dark spices and earth. Excellent concentration, packed concentrated black fruit, unctuous and chewy, good acidity, earthy mineral and a long concentrated black fruit driven finish with lead pencil and cedar at the end. This clearly displays the 02 vintage, i.e. concentrated but a bit rough/rustic, mostly very ripe fruit but also a hint of green. I believe this has the concentration to age well. Not too behind the others, especially in a decade or two.

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