Community Tasting Note

Cailles wrote:

Wednesday, December 30, 2020 - Tasted double blind. This is my third time trying this wine with consistent notes although this bottle is certainly the best yet which confirms my recent impression that many of these 2015s which were born quite bold, ripe, with often too much of everything for my taste, are starting to calm down and flesh out. Of course it will take more time to really get to the sweet spot but the process has started. This showed more nuanced and with a better balanced fruit than the first bottles. As said previously, the wine has a lot of stuffing and the structural frame is very good. Points deducted for the still a bit too bold and fruity profile and just a tad heat on the nose. 95+ points with more potential in the future.

TN: Very expressive, intense and bold nose with lots of dark cherries, dark chocolate, minerality, buttery notes and with some detectable heat. Good precision. More inviting on the palate with lots of dark fruit, some baking spices, dark chocolate, minerality and as the fruit is fleshing out more and more tobacco, forest floor notes appear which make the wine more balanced and harmonious than on the nose and compared to previous bottles. The structure is very good with a wall of ultra-fine tannins, a good freshness and creamy texture. Not as perfectly weightless as the Grange we had next to it (and it probably will never be) but great fun to drink with a long, fruit driven finish,

Decanting: Decanted for 3-4 hours but it improved markedly in the glass becoming more harmonious and aristocratic. I would hence suggest rather a 6+ hours decant.

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