Community Tasting Note

acyso wrote:

Sunday, September 4, 2022 - (Mostly) Spanish dinner (Chicago, IL): Keeping with my previous experiences with this wine, a full 24 hours before service, I decided to pop the cork, pour off a fraction of a glass, and let the wine aerate. The initial pour is quite in line with my previous experiences with this wine. It's muted and doesn't show much expressiveness. A slight bit of tart fruit, but an intense waxiness on the nose and palate. Not particularly oaky. Plenty of acidity and liveliness for a wine of this age. This is so intense and concentrated it feels bitter. Oxidative winemaking, yes, but definitely not oxidized.

On the day of service, this wine had indeed amply tightened up and lost some of the waxy aromatics, though it certainly still retained a good amount of them. There's far more weight now, and the fruit shows more intensely. Almost comical levels of concentration. It's still a white wine best treated as a red, and went fantastic with a chicken paella.

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