Community Tasting Note

SimonG wrote:

Sunday, December 3, 2023 - 1/12. First look at 2000 HBL, and despite lots of suggestions on CT that its’s open and giving, this was pretty monolithic. Dense, almost impenetrable full ruby, really dense and inky in the decanter and glass. Tight nose of blackcurrant and maybe something a little more mineral. Still some tannin, but resolved enough for drinking comfortably, but the fruit dense and unyielding, profile more St Estephe than Pauillac currently. If you told me this was only five or six years old I’d believe it. Over the course of five hours in decanter and glass it opens slightly, but remains a brooding presence, if not sulking then certainly far from garrulous. That said, it does go well with a roasted rib of beef, but grudgingly so. A third poured back into the bottle and popped in the fridge to see what tomorrow brings. **(*)

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