Community Tasting Note

Paul S wrote:

Monday, December 31, 2012 - New Year's Eve 2012 Drinks (Kat and Ewen's): Wow. This has aged beautifully over the past few years, and this bottle was probably the best yet. I thought the last bottle we had was already beautiful, but this probably shaded it. There was hardly a hint of the burnt rubber smells that haunted the wine earlier on in its life. Instead, we were rewarded with a wonderful nose, with rich, yet mellow aromas of treacle and dried mango, apricots, candied tangerines and lovely honeyed flowers - so pretty. It was lovely in the mouth too, with cool, juicy acidity running through delicious flavours of apricots, sweet peaches and nectarines - a whole panoply of stone fruited flavours, which were then drawn out on the midpalate with more dried mango and honeyed tones. Absolutely delicious and super-fresh all the way into a bright finish that had an almost guava-like crunch to it. Wow. This was really yummy, full of fruit and flowers and honey, yet graceful and energetic at the same time. Right at the very end, a slightly smoky note peeked out, but instead of burnt rubber, this had now mellowed into a caramelly, browned sugar tone, with little pinpricks of spice at the side. Really quite an amazing wine. Easily the match for the superb Sauternes that we had alongside. One last precious bottle - that it going to stay in the cellar for a few more years yet.

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