Community Tasting Note

andrewstevenson.com wrote:

Saturday, April 8, 2006 - They presented the bottle and then took it away to open it. A few minutes later the maitre d' returned a touch sheepishly to say that this was their last bottle and they thought it looked like the glass was cracked just below the lip right at the top. Did I still want to risk it? Well of course, I did as long as they sieved the shards of glass out, if there were any.

They did and it returned decanted together with the bottle and the neck of the bottle, still with the cork in, separately, looking just like it had been sabred! Never had that before.

The other difficulty was that I wasn't going to drink it all (not when I'm driving, ossifer), so I'd said when I ordered it, that I'd just put the cork in and take the remainder with me. Slight problem when the bottle's looking like it's been sabred/port-tonged ... (Quickly solved by them - it's now safely stelvined in Hildon water half bottle.)

The wine was very good too - went very well with all the food (except some stilton and epoisses at the cheese course, though it was a revelation with some Beaufort). Lots of lovely fruit, with a nice ripeness and just starting to develop some more mineral characteristics.

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