Community Tasting Note

Paul S wrote:

Thursday, September 15, 2011 - "Simple" Midweek Dinner (the Gang Goes Spanish) (Bilbao Restaurant, 111 Somerset): Very good indeed. It is quite bemusing how this wine is almost always unplaceable in a blind-tasting, and it was quite unguessable on the night once again. No one got closer than to place it as coming from a Mediterranean climate. It certainly had an intriguing nose, with a dusting of dark plums and cassis, sweet berries, a waft of dried flowers, and then some funky earth and barnyardy scents. There was a bit of glycerol in there, but hardly enough to throw off the overall attractiveness of that nose. The palate was really nice as well. Here too there was a bit oif alcohol at the edges, but I loved the flavours beyond that - sweet cassis, dark berries, nicely melting across the mouth into a slightly earthy, slightly herby, tobacco-touched finish. Nicely balanced with a nice sense of purity in spite of the generous fruit, this was such a puzzle of a wine. It was perhaps just a bit thinned out and metallic at the very end, but otherwise this was a good bottle at a pretty nice place now. On the upside, I can only see it getting better with time. Good stuff.

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