Community Tasting Note

Billigan wrote:

Tuesday, December 18, 2012 - Right out of the gate, the blast of cedar and tobacco on the nose is enough to knock you back a few feet. The graphite/lead pencil smell was also the strongest I’ve ever felt in a wine (you hear the descriptor thrown around a lot, but this was the first wine to really take me back to grade school, grinding away at the sharpener on my Ticonderoga #2s). A forward vintage for sure, but the wine maintained plenty of elegance and balance, and I never got the impression of "overripeness" here. Plus, this is Las Cases, so it showed enough tannic bite on the palate to remind me that I’d opened it too soon. I know France is usually the reference point, but as I’m not that experienced with Bordeaux, I’ll flip it around here: this drank like a Dunn Howell Mountain from a great year.

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