Community Tasting Note

csimm wrote:

Sunday, April 5, 2020 - 2017 Schrader RBS and CCS side-by-side.

The CCS shows a cool, mineral-laced delivery of higher toned red and purple fruit. Stays linear and juvenile from front to tail, with a biting periphery that keeps the core in a serious furrowed-brow demeanor. Angular and stuttered in its current delivery.

Like many 2017s, the mid-palate exhibits a hollowness that makes for a somewhat vapid and watery mouthfeel. The mineral elements here are more pronounced when next to the fruitier RBS, giving the CCS the appearance of comparatively more frame than the RBS...but that “frame” is also seemingly made up of an unripe scaffolding that ponders whether or not the fruit flesh of the CCS will ever grow up enough to fill in around its bones. The CCS finishes narrow and slightly bitter.

There are faint “pretty” moments here with the fragile fruit trying to peek through the obvious bite, but they are fleeting. Improvement will be limited. JD 97-100 points?? Eeesh. Not by my math.

For those holding bottles, best advice is to continue to do so and pray the CCS kinda fills in one day. 91+ points with a point or two of upside after 3-4+? years.

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