Community Tasting Note

Frank Murray III wrote:

Thursday, April 16, 2020 - Opened this about an hour ago, and then put a light chill on it. It's come around nicely. What really seems to come through in this bottle is the red apple, very akin to the old Copain Kiser bottlings that are made from the Kiser property next door. And given the extra push of ripeness from the vintage, you could even take a leap and say candied red apple, but in no terms is this a sweet wine. Complementing the red apple is pomegranate, a juicy quality of that fruit, along with a cherry note. Wrapping all of this together is the acidity that comes with Rhys, and the Bearwallow terroir which for me is a soil/loamy infusion to the palate. Finally, there is a cinnamon note woven through the finish, which is the same thing I found in the bottle from last July. With the tang of the acid, the red fruit and this spice note, we could even drop the 'cinnamon red hots' reference, which I do think is accurate, but as I mentioned about the candied red apple, the wine is not cloying. It's hard to not keep buying Bearwallow, and even Porkie Hill, as while I want to focus on the SCM single plot wines which I love, I also do think that Bear's fruit is telling a good story and with some age like this bottle, it's really quite beautiful to see how it's progressing. This is my last 2012 Bear, sacrificed for the Rhys virtual event tonight on Wine Berserkers....of note about the wine on Day 2, more cranberry coming forward, and the acidity really brightening, which is one of the real hallmarks of the 2012 Rhys wines. This is really alive today, and the drinking window, as with many of the 2012s, are simply long and potentially rewarding.

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