One of the bottles I provided for a co-hosting with Mark at the City Club wine group.
Always a treat to open a birth year wine. I had this last year and this bottle seemed to have more stuffing. It was less muddled/clay driven and more distinctly black fruit and spice heavy. Next to a ‘79 Montelena, it wasn’t as full-bodied, but it certainly had more tannin. The tannic finish was quite pronounced and bolstered throughout the lunch. Mid-palate was herbal and black currant with faint tart red fruit and tobacco. Fun to drink.
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JD Friday Wine Group - SA and MF co-host (City Club FW): Served blind - leather on the nose, and a good bit of sediment in the glass. Deep red in color, and slightly bitter palate. Much less fruit than the Montelena before it. Still has high tannins, and medium+ acid. This one still has a long runway. I guessed a super Tuscan, 15+ years old. Quite wrong.
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Table Donkey & Stick Terroir Tuesday tasting. This wine is much denser, chewier, and more tannic (with less resolution) than its year-older counterpart. I want to say this is more closed than the 1987, but it just seems like it's not as complete and even when/if the tannins are more resolved, there will be less to like here. Aromatics are not as expressive either. Overall still a good wine, if not on par with its brother this eve.
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Diamond Creek night at Table, Donkey and Stick (Chicago, IL): This was certainly much bolder and broader than the 1987, which is kind of weird, right? In any case, this showed much fewer green notes on the nose, in favour of more black currants. The palate is more full-bodied, but it still has an amazing clayey minerality to it (whether Red Rock Terrace is actually on clay, I've no clue). The tannins are definitely bigger here as well, though they are certainly fully resolved.
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4/19/2023 - Shay.Aldriedge Likes this wine: 91 Points
One of the bottles I provided for a co-hosting with Mark at the City Club wine group.
Always a treat to open a birth year wine. I had this last year and this bottle seemed to have more stuffing. It was less muddled/clay driven and more distinctly black fruit and spice heavy. Next to a ‘79 Montelena, it wasn’t as full-bodied, but it certainly had more tannin. The tannic finish was quite pronounced and bolstered throughout the lunch. Mid-palate was herbal and black currant with faint tart red fruit and tobacco. Fun to drink.
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4/14/2023 - Gregmonroe wrote:
JD Friday Wine Group - SA and MF co-host (City Club FW): Served blind - leather on the nose, and a good bit of sediment in the glass. Deep red in color, and slightly bitter palate. Much less fruit than the Montelena before it. Still has high tannins, and medium+ acid. This one still has a long runway. I guessed a super Tuscan, 15+ years old. Quite wrong.
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11/18/2019 - pshap wrote: flawed
corked
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12/8/2015 - SoundinBetween wrote:
Table Donkey & Stick Terroir Tuesday tasting. This wine is much denser, chewier, and more tannic (with less resolution) than its year-older counterpart. I want to say this is more closed than the 1987, but it just seems like it's not as complete and even when/if the tannins are more resolved, there will be less to like here. Aromatics are not as expressive either. Overall still a good wine, if not on par with its brother this eve.
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12/8/2015 - acyso wrote: 90 Points
Diamond Creek night at Table, Donkey and Stick (Chicago, IL): This was certainly much bolder and broader than the 1987, which is kind of weird, right? In any case, this showed much fewer green notes on the nose, in favour of more black currants. The palate is more full-bodied, but it still has an amazing clayey minerality to it (whether Red Rock Terrace is actually on clay, I've no clue). The tannins are definitely bigger here as well, though they are certainly fully resolved.
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