Community Tasting Note

Gregory Dal Piaz wrote:

Friday, March 12, 2021 - Still relatively youthful looking. Very attractive on the nose combining aromas of smoke, tobacco, mustard seed, and relatively dark, blackberry plummy fruit with some spicy wood induced undertones. Tactile, rich, yet lively in the mouth. This is decidedly simpler than the other two wines tonight, but as long and intense, with a decidedly more fruit driven personality showing a little black currant and lots of blackberry and jammy strawberry flavors. It’s very well balanced, and certainly lovable, just not that interesting. It is delicious though! 90-91

2 hours in: A bit more complexity has emerged on the nose, touches of leather, sour plum, wood spice, toast, and vanilla, offer an added level of complexity. Smooth, rich, but with plenty of juicy acidity, more red fruited and perhaps with the alcohol just noticeable as this has warmed from cellar to room temp. It’s lovely, I don’t see how it gets any better however, and it remains more about fruit, and winemaking than an expression of terroir. Quite good though. 89-90pts

Day 2: I would say much improved, decidedly more subtle than yesterday with hints of gunpowder, dried beef, dried flowers, mocha and wood spice lending notable complexity to the dark earthy fruit. Really lovely structural integration on the palate at this point, and the fruit, while still the tar, has reserved enough to allow those mineral, savory tones from the nose to emerge on the palate. The receding fruit though has left the structural element exposed a bit on the modest finish. The wood spice, and wood tannins in particular now are slightly intrusive on the finale. Still, this is less hedonistic than yesterday, if a tad more interesting, with notes of hoisin, dried plums, tobacco, and cedar lending detail on the backend. I’m torn here, it’s very good wine and probably worthy of a point or two more than I’m awarding it, but the tannins are going to win out here, so drink this up over the next 3, maybe 5 years and it should be fully rewarding. 89pts

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