Community Tasting Note

GrapeScott wrote:

Thursday, March 27, 2014 - Went out to dinner at Nana's in Durham with my better half to celebrate a certain monumental birthday (rhymes with "shorty") and had brought a few bottles (Selosse V.O. and 1974 Chappellet Napa Cab) but found a little gem on the list in this wine at what seemed like a fair price. While the cork gave our waiter a bit of a fit, by the time he returned with the opened bottle and poured the first taste I was pleasantly surprised to see that the color was outstanding (bright ruby purple with no bricking) and the nose was giving off pleasant aromas of kirsch and classic Pauillac aromas of cedar, lead pencil and black currant. Predictably tannic and a bit thin upon the first taste, this begrudgingly filled out and evolved into a really pretty wine, with flavors to match the stunning nose on a medium-bodied frame. This was not nearly the wine of an '85 Lynch consumed a few weeks earlier but was in a really nice place now, and paired well with a wide variety of dishes (foie gras terrine, red snapper with wild mushroom and chervil, chestnut agnolotti with pork confit, and braised short ribs). This bottle was a base neck fill with a saturated but intact cork. Based on the small sampling of '75s I've had lately, I think many are coming around and should appeal to lovers of classic claret.

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