Community Tasting Note

BigJ wrote:

Saturday, January 21, 2017 - 375ml bottle purchased 2 weeks back. Colour is still deep red with hints of purple, fading and bricking on the outer 1/3. 10 minutes after opening the nose was really quite lovely and lifted with violets, cassis, cigar and a hint of vegetation, however the palate was overly tart and still solid puckeringly dry tannins. after about an hour the nose faded to be a little more muted/tightly knit, but the palate started to drink much better. cassis, cigar box and a rich vein of fruit tried to put its head out from behind the wall of acid and tannin. Ever present tannin and crisp acidity will long outlive the fruit i feel. I would drink this now, with food if I had more of them. I recommend a 90 minute decant.

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