2009 Cockburn LBV
Posted: Fri May 12, 2017 8:13 pm
Decanted for 4 hours
Ideal T cork, pitch dark color.
Nose of brambles and dark berries and jam, with a surprisingly green forest-y aspect I'm not used to in younger VP and LBV.
Palate is fruit forward, again with rich dark berry jams, big grippy tannins, drying and thinning the close, leaving a bit of a green forest-y finish. This is plenty tasty, but perhaps a minor casualty of a hot year where things didn't quite achieve the same phenolic ripeness as sugar ripeness.
88 pts.
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Ideal T cork, pitch dark color.
Nose of brambles and dark berries and jam, with a surprisingly green forest-y aspect I'm not used to in younger VP and LBV.
Palate is fruit forward, again with rich dark berry jams, big grippy tannins, drying and thinning the close, leaving a bit of a green forest-y finish. This is plenty tasty, but perhaps a minor casualty of a hot year where things didn't quite achieve the same phenolic ripeness as sugar ripeness.
88 pts.
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