Description
Appearance: Interesting gold / amber color in the bottle – about the same color as a bourbon (but not a scotch) of the same age. A honey oak or smokey brown color.First Impression: Brine, phenol, mesquite sap, salt.Taste: Brine, herbs de Provence, salt, smoke, oily, almost like duck fat cooked over a smoky wood fire- saltpeter/niter, alkali, slick mouth feel, almost paradoxical sweet/bitter and definite viscosity.
Wine Enthusiast
- we90-95
The first nosings find notes of quinine, burnt match and furniture polish; additional time brings out deeper scents of onion, brine, olives and damp earth. The palate entry is sooty, sweet and close to creamy; at midpalate the taste profile turns zesty and peppery, oaky sweet, charcoal-like and savory. Finishes bittersweet and caramel-like.
November 15, 2005
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