Community Tasting Note

ikkaariainen wrote:

Sunday, December 18, 2011 - This wine was received from tashNYC for the '11 CT SS game and drank 2 nights ago with good CT wine buddy neighborbill at a Christmas dinner at Lake Hickory CC. The bottle was not formally decanted but it was opened and was breathing for almost 4 hours before consumption and was adequately aired although an hour or two in the decanter would not hurt this wine at all. This is a very good wine, the first bottle of this wine and of this particular vintage we had was a little over two years ago and this wine has continued to improve. This is a right bank style bdx blend of primarily merlot, cab franc and petit verdot. The nose initially a little funky and this blew off very quickly with balanced oak, dark fruit and a hint of black currant. A big wine, in a great drinking window right now, almost inky black, very balanced and smooth with good mouth feel and overall very balanced acid / tannins / fruit and this has lots longer to go in the cellar. Very smooth and sophisticated on the palate with controlled but present oak, terroir, red cherry and the development of black pepper and a whiff of smoke on a long lingering pleasant aftertaste. A very good QPR wine at this average CT price point, would definitely recommend this and again a big thanks to tashNYC for kindly sharing a bottle of this with us.

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