Dark nutty nose, chirping of alcohol and dense fruit, funk burns off with decanting and gobs of heavily-manipulated dessert-spice overtones remain. Bitter and dark, a stew of banana peel tannins obfuscate everything but the burn of overt wet leather, pond-water and sultry cinnamon concentrated into a flabby muss so saline it leaves you frantically searching for fruit. A 3-hour decant is no help, leaving you with a gorgeous-label, 50-dollar hole concentrated beyond belief, but lacking redeeming definition andDark nutty nose, chirping of alcohol and dense fruit, funk burns off with decanting and gobs of heavily-manipulated dessert-spice overtones remain. Bitter and dark, a stew of banana peel tannins obfuscate everything but the burn of overt wet leather, pond-water and sultry cinnamon concentrated into a flabby muss so saline it leaves you frantically searching for fruit. A 3-hour decant is no help, leaving you with a gorgeous-label, 50-dollar hole concentrated beyond belief, but lacking redeeming definition and ridiculously out of balance. Quite possibly the worst of this glorious vintage I have had. ridiculously out of balance. Quite possibly the worst of this glorious vintage I have had.
2013 FERRARI-CARANO ‘Tresor’ Red Blend cab/bec/PV/ME/CF Sonoma County 14.5
Stephen McConnell 