Community Tasting Note

Paul S wrote:

Wednesday, August 26, 2020 - Dog Year Wines (Yan, National Gallery, Singapore): This was simply amazing - even better than the tremendous magnum I had a decade or so back. The best wine in the midst of a very serious line-up, and probably one of the top 10 or 20 wines I can remember ever having. The nose was just beautiful, with lifted wafts of dried plums and cherries, honeyed dates, a twist of sweet American oak, and then drifts of fragrant smoke and sweet spices. Just wonderful - complex, alluring, seductive. Lovely. The palate simply floored me. Wow. How do I even begin to describe this - deep, powerful, generous, yet also effortless and elegant, with such purity and clarity to it. Perfeclt integrated, and the balance was just pristine. This just danced across the mouth with layer after effortless later of black cherry, blueberries and dark plum, all seasoned with a gentle infusion of spice and smoke, all drifting away into an inexorably long finish. This was fantastic. Intensity and complexity without a smidgen or weight on it. It’s bottles like this that make me fall in love with wine all over again. A masterpiece, drinking at absolute peak now.

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