Community Tasting Note

aero wrote:

Monday, May 23, 2022 - Medium bodied, modern big fruit styling. A baby of a wine. The nose is powerfully fragrant -- strongly mentholated with eucalyptus, then ripe red and purple fruit (not berries), and some lactic elements. Oak and tannins dominate the palate, with an angular bittered finished. Some berries and more eucalyptus on wait quietly for the tannins to precipitate out in the cellar. Difficult interaction with food, but good on its own. Air does some good but won't get the wine there today, perhaps 4-6 years (2026+).

Comparisons to N Rhone... There is good concentration but not much of the finesse, volcantics, florality, bramble, berries, garrique, gamey-meat, leather, smoke, etc you typically find in varying degrees from those appellations. This is more towards Central California Syrah, but with eucalyptus in spades.

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Day 2 & 3 update - vacuum sealed with compressor overnight twice, the eucalyptus integrates somewhat but stays dominant. My experience is this will increase with age. The wine is pretty fat underneath like Cayuse's Syrahs but the style doesn't support it well IMO. You can see gum trees in photos around the Clonakilla vineyard, a fair bit of MOG may be making it into the wine itself.

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