Community Tasting Note

Paul S wrote:

Saturday, July 27, 2013 - Baby Shower (Park Palace, Grand Park Hotel): A wonderful wine, and just a beautiful pairing with deep-fried Soon Hock fish in superior soy sauce. While not quite as complex and developed as the last bottle I had a year back, this was still a show-stopper. It had such a wonderful nose, showing wafts of malt honey and orange blossoms, sweet aromas of dried mangoes and apricots, mandarin oranges, then dried flowers and spice and mineral. Wow. The palate was less showy, but perhaps even more impressive. It had a profound depth, with rich flavours of red apples and mangoes and mandarin oranges - a whole mouthfilling spectrum of fleshy fruit - drizzled with honey and wreathed with orange blossoms on the creamily-textured midpalate. Yet for all that, this was so beautifully balanced and wonderfully integrated that it came across effortlessly elegant, with a crystal clarity that shone through its delicious depth. Quite remarkable really - if you blinked, you could easily missed how deeply-wound and wonderfully complex this wine was. It had a lovely finish too - long, insistent, with toasty bit of spice and mineral winding their way through a linger of honeyed fruits. A great wine, and it is only starting to drink well now - give it a few more years, and it should develop even more complexity and nuance. I loved this.

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