Community Tasting Note

heggink1 wrote:

Sunday, January 22, 2012 - Partner Review:

The pour was deep, dark, and coated the glass with an alluring oily sheen. The nose held lots of chocolate, slightly smokey with a prominent chalky undertone. An overall fragrant bouquet of peppery and aged black fruits. The taste was medium-sweet with a very well rounded, powerfully smooth, full body. The initial attack was coating velvet, with punchy moments of a smokey black pepper, rounding out to a juicy black fruit crescendo. Overall, very well structured and balanced, a great wine with food, or on its own.

This pairing with plum chicken was up there! SPICE! It all melted together on the tongue to create this smokey, amazing Asian experience. The Chinese mustard flavor was really brought to the forefront with the aid of the wine, and that's exactly where it needed to be. The wine helped to take this dish and allow you to taste it all the way down your throat, while the food sort of punched up all the taste attacks, creating a well engineered roller coaster on the tongue. All in all, I would call this a perfect pairing!

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