Community Tasting Note

Frabjous wrote:

Saturday, January 7, 2012 - This bottle was not as enjoyable as the previous two, either it was an off bottle or the wine has gone into decline. It was a perfectly ok Merlot but had less of the vibrancy tasted previously. I guess “pushed” (reverse osmosis, oak pellets, micro-oxygenation &c) wines don’t age so well. I’ll soon try a bottle of 2009 The Boxer ShirOz and see if the same thing is going on with it; I’m more and more off the pushed wine bandwagon, it produces wines that are bold and in your face when drunk young but which lack depth and subtlety - compared with Massena “The Eleventh Hour” the ‘dooker wines are crude and boorish.

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