by Joshua Kates » Sun Feb 15, 2009 9:25 am
Already shows a little lightening around the edges, with a powerful nose: something candied, sweet and floral and maybe some mushroom (but we were cooking with them, too, so who knows).
In the mouth: strawberry going toward cola, getting darker tastes, until around the middle, the oak seemed to kick in, a little vanilla, rounder, though ending w/some tingly acid (tannins?) (not too strong), showing it could definitely age some more. Pretty fun, though a little "generic," especially since, as the evening wore on, it rounded out, lost some of the complexity, and the vanilla/oak came on stronger.