Community Tasting Note

WetRock wrote:

Thursday, October 4, 2007 - Popped and poured. Observed over two days. Big boysenberry nose that gets bigger over 15 minutes at which point resembles a syrah. Big fruited with good acidity, elegant. Develops more red berries and cherries with some air time, becomes a bit more restrained for some time. Definitely a very big fruited wine without being clumsy, disjointed, hot or overly citrus on the finish. About an hour in big earth comes out on the nose to my surprise, somewhat barnyardy but not bretty. More cranberry and pomegranate with time. Yummy.
Day 2: Wow....still a big nose that somehow seems even more expressive adding some sarsaparilla and cola, orange rind. Still big fruited and seems very much in contrast with the Sonoma Coast bottling in that it is a bigger fruited with and seems less complex or at least doesn't suggest stem inclusion but this wine did change over a couple days as did the SC and for some reason brings to mind a Rivers Marie wine. This drinks very well now but my other bottles will sleep at least another year to see where it goes.
This is the kind of wine that is hard not to enjoy, hedonistic and big fruited but still a well crafted wine that is not unbalanced across the palate and never a suggestion of heat.

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