Community Tasting Note

Paul S wrote:

Friday, November 19, 2010 - Lunch at Alba (Restaurant Alba, Keong Saik Road): A solid example of Carneros Pinot that went wonderfully well with of grilled beef in blue cheese sauce, but this was unfortunately left in the shadows by the Oregon that was poured just before. Nice nose, quite a bit more low tone than the expressive high-toned fruits and flowers of the previous wine. This had earthy scents, meat, dark cherries, savoury umami, almost Burgundian but for the whoosh of glycerol at the end. The palate was clearly new world though. Rich, thick, glycerol laced, but rather nice for all that, with ripe dark fruits, black cherries I thought, showing lots of depth, along with more earthiness driving towards a decent finish. Acid was lower than the Oregonian, but balance was still decent. A good effort.

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