Community Tasting Note

Frank Murray III wrote:

Saturday, March 5, 2022 - My final bottle, I opened this 6 hours ago. I did not decant it out of the bottle but just stood it up with the cork out. This remains a dark, big shouldered wine, flush with dark, rich fruit. There is a molten quality here, like a dark licorice was melted down over charcoal, dark blackberry and tar. With the alcohol (labeled at 14.7%), after a few ounces tasting this I can feel it warming up my stomach and the density of the wine's dark chocolate and creosote still coating my palate. Over the years, and I used to drink a lot of Petite Syrah, I have lost the taste for it. The higher alcohol and palate density is just not pleasing to me anymore. With that said, there is nothing wrong with this wine and in fact, there is a section of wine drinkers that will like this wine for the power, darkness and big fruit. And to anyone that says you gotta keep aging this stuff, respectfully that's not accurate, at least for me. Yeah, with a six hour slow ox without the cork, there is no blocking tannin that would stop this from being enjoyed. I ask the question then...what does one get by letting this wine, now already almost 8 years old, continue to age and soften when it's softened now? The fruit will soften but the alcohol signature is not going to go away so why not enjoy this wine now, when the fruit and intensity is firing on all cylinders?

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