Community Tasting Note

honest bob wrote:

Friday, September 11, 2015 - From 75cl, perfect and very long cork. Decanted 2 hours: First sip was sugary sweet, but this settled down with aeration. The scent is the best bit, a bombshell of dark blackberry fruit, cedar and sweet balsamic herbs. Pauillac meets Stellenbosch meets Sonoma? Thereafter it is much more Southern Rhône than Northern Médoc. Thick, full-bodied entry, with ripe blackcurrant and blackberry fighing it out for supremacy. Sweet glycerine-buffered mid-palate, with just-noticeable balancing acid and tannins towards the shortish finish. The first glass is super-impressive, the second cloys, the third is definitely one too much. If you have this in the cellar, try serving it as you might a ripe Chateauneuf – with game, perhaps, or a very richly flavoured stew (juniper berries, cepes, that sort of thing). With roast lamb it is currently just too much of a big, fat, sweet, monster. Or wait 5 years and hope it'll slim down. (89-)90P

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