Oswaldo Costa
Oswaldo Costa
1999 Alain Graillot Crozes-Hermitage 13.0%
Was going to give this thread some punning title but my cleaver-wielding pun probation officer threatened to cleave my palate*. So I'll just drily state that the nose was a dance of dark berry, tar and smoked meat enveloped in an earthy pot pourri (literally "rotten Cheech & Chong") of forestine flavors, including underbrush, eucalyptus, sage and mushrooms. Alas, such a multivalent polynasal experience set me up for monobucal disappointment: good acidity and weight, clear and present tannins, but somehow lacking in the meaty, big and bouncy attributes that made the 1996 of this so hedonistic.
*leaving it cleft
Was going to give this thread some punning title but my cleaver-wielding pun probation officer threatened to cleave my palate*. So I'll just drily state that the nose was a dance of dark berry, tar and smoked meat enveloped in an earthy pot pourri (literally "rotten Cheech & Chong") of forestine flavors, including underbrush, eucalyptus, sage and mushrooms. Alas, such a multivalent polynasal experience set me up for monobucal disappointment: good acidity and weight, clear and present tannins, but somehow lacking in the meaty, big and bouncy attributes that made the 1996 of this so hedonistic.
*leaving it cleft
