Found July 2012
This was the tale of two wines ... the wine we opened and the wine we ended up drinking, let me explain. When first we popped the cork it showed some dark fruit but there was also a waft of underlying volatile acidity (VA), and it kept rising the more aeration we gave the wine, this characteristic also found its way onto the palate. The second problem we discovered was that although the wine had a mediocre 12.9% alcohol level you could actually smell and taste it - the wine was hot. 10 minutes later a transformation occurred and the wine that we initially took for undrinkable hooch turned into something rather pleasant. The dark fruit started to rise above the VA and took over as the dominant smell and taste, spice joined it and the alcohol seemed to settle so that it was not a hot mess. We also found dried cherry and a nice bit of tobacco from the mid-palate to the finish. In the end we sat and sipped on a glass because there was some nice spiced-dark fruit on this well-balanced wine. I knew we`d find a good one today. Lost & Found Rating: Tolerable+
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