My favorite wine from this producer, and this bottle is feeling a bit tired. Didn’t see that coming from my last visit, and perhaps a decade is pushing it a bit. It’s still gorgeous, and not by any means drain-food, I will continue drinking this wine tonight and enjoy each moment, though through VARY tertiaried lenses. Still dark, impenetrable ruby with rather little brick, just smelling and feeling somewhat fatigued.
In the mouth, dark and spicy, a bite of bright fruit hitting short of acidic fences and the whole package roiled in deep leather and not-perfectly-polished dank mirth. Burning bright into finish, it is still a chewy packing of old-world berry with Paso concentration.
2012 PER CASO ‘Iberian Blend’ TN/TC/SZ 63/29/8 Glenrose Vyd Adeliada Dist Paso Robles 14.6
Stephen McConnell 