Community Tasting Note

Paul S wrote:

Tuesday, February 22, 2022 - Lunch at Les Amis (Les Amis, Shaw House, Singapore): A pleasing wine, but rather a performance of two halves - an absolutely gorgeous nose, followed by a pleasant but rather less impressive palate. What a nose this had though, with savoury and sweet scents tumbling out of the glass in a perfumed melange - earth and meat, red cherries and dark berries, bramble and spice notes, with a hint of toasty oak and a drift of dried florals at the side - wonderful stuff. The palate was a shift of gear after that. Less assertive, lighter than one would expect, but still with just enough weight to make an engaging drink. What it did have going for it was a sense of purity that the 2014 vintage can give, with a lovely clarity to its flavours of red cherries and berries playing against a more savoury backdrop of earth, meat and bramble; all this gliding off into a finish touched by a bit of toast, some spice and a shade of dried brambly roses. All in all, an enjoyable drop, even if it was lacking in some authority. A few more years in a bottle may do it a bit of good, but this is not one for the really long-haul.

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