Tasted 18 December 2017
Central Coast · Paso Robles
PnP with tight, somewhat compacted notes of dark black raspberry and vanilla alcohol flavors. After two hours in the decanter, some of the "truer" flavors came out. Dark purple and dark red berry, red and black currant,…
Black cherry, blackberry, deep/dark kirsch, rich cassis, and ripe purple plum round out the core fruit here. Additional notes of hoisin and clay make an appearance midway through the attack. There is…
PnP was fairly hot and cocktail-esque initially. After an hour in the decanter, some of the booze dissipated, but never fully ceased distracting a bit from the overall core fruit. Dark red and…
Finished the bottle. Previous notes apply. It took about two hours of decanted air to blow off some heat that pulled away from the core fruit flavors. In the end, I would hold for another year+ on…
