Community Tasting Note

timewithwine wrote:

Monday, January 18, 2016 - Dark maroon in the glass but not at all opaque ... at least at first. While initially translucent, the wine opens and deepens until after a couple of hours, until it becomes an opaque garnet. The nose initially exudes barnyard elements with hints of green pepper, then becoming cinnamon, sandalwood, and tobo. The palate profile tracks the nose ... but then, as the wine awakes ... cherry appears on the attack and carries to the midpalate where it relinquishes to raspberry and graphite at its core with sandalwood carrying the wine to the finish along with something striking of mocha. Smoke also appears on the midpalate and carries to the finish. This wine is just now coming into its own, but has the tannic stuffing to carry it for years. Hold. 12.5% alc. With beef ribeyes (from Meating Place) as selected by the scion ’afore she begins her treck to St. Andrews. Recommended.

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