Nose: Plum jam on country bread, mild mode made chai tea with milk. I have vivid sensory memories of walking into a malbec winery. Concentrated red wine tannins wafting off giant oak barrels, my friend Peter playing the piano as it echoes through the cathedram (no that isn’t a real word, but it’s where I pray). The smell was so intense it triggered my red wine allergy and I had to go lie outside amidst the vineyard. Bright cabinet spicer, coalescing into classic Graham crackers. This just has the best px nose after a rest in the glass, dates/figs, golden raisins, vanilla bean. Pfffft what a nose. This is gorgeous
Palate: jammy luscious hug. What a baller px cask – exceptional. Hot cocoa with ginger, turkish apricots. Christmas pudding. BUT it burns and has a bitter sharp moment like a pothole you weren’t expecting in a perfectly paved new country road.
Rating: 6 / 10 – without that bitter note, this would be a 9. But it is such a disharmonous moment. But what a nose and amazing px influence.
