Community Tasting Note

Paul S wrote:

Friday, September 20, 2019 - Richebourg + RSV for Mike and Pete's birthday (Holland Park, Singapore): Glorious stuff, just beginning to unfurl - this bottle was clearly the pick of the bunch on the 2002 flight. It was very exotic on the bouquet, with wafts of cardamom and cumin and cloves, and then a very dark fruited core of black cherries, plums and blackberries, all flecked with little bits of vanilla - a wonderful kaleidoscope of a nose. The palate was deep, dark and powerful, yet somehow also elegant and transparent, with very juicy, limpid flavours of black cherries and dark berries, spice and mineral, all playing against a backdrop of savoury earth and mineral. There was so much purity and transparency about the fruit in spite of the great depth of the wine. This then stretched away into a long, long finish of bittersweet orange peel and sour plums. Superb power and length here, with the finish just and clinging on the backpalate and refusing to let go. A noble wine then - impeccably balanced and so very solid, with tons and tons going on in its depth, but this does need time in the bottle yet before it really hits its stride. I am glad I still have a couple of bottles left in the cellar. the next one only gets opened 5-6 years down the road.

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