Enjoyed both bottles at Velvet 48 in Burlingame.
*2017 Tignanello *
Decanted and drank over two hours.
Nose slightly resembles potpourri, but in a good way.
Red cherry, blueberry, currant, eucalyptus.
Still very young, but very approachable.
I'm definitely drinking Tignanello way too young, but they're always so enjoyable. I look forward to trying a bottle with age on it soon.
92 points.
2016 Heitz Lot C-91
I'm going to chalk this up to bottle variation. This wasn't flawed, didn't feel like brett or TCA, but the wine was sour on the nose, almost similar to apple cider vinegar. It also wasn't the typical VA that blows off with time.
Even with a few hours of air, that sourness never really blew off.
It was still an enjoyable wine with complexity and nice fruit-forward notes, although with a little higher acidity than I'm used to from Heitz.
I have a feeling this was an off bottle and this would normally be a more enjoyable wine.
90 points.
by rnjbond
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That’s a bummer on the C-91, I have a 2017 I’ve been wanting to open sometime this year
Honest question — if that description matches a 90 for you, how awful is an 80? There’s really not a single positive descriptor there beyond the most generic “house red” sell, but there’s still 89 points under for wines that are worse. What’re they for?