Troy graciously gifted a bottle of your '08 Magnafique to us a couple
weeks ago and encouraged us to share our impressions of the wine.
Unfortunately, despite strong encouragement from the vintner to taste the
wine sooner rather than later, it has taken us until this past weekend to
enjoy it.
My response to the first mouthful was, "Wow!" I immediately noticed a
softness in the wine that many young commercial wines don't have. For
example, young Cabernet's are noted for being hard. Other young wines are
noted for being "hot." The Magnafique we tried was neither of these.
I also responded "Wow!" because of the fullness of the wine. I felt all
areas of my mouth were part of the experience: front and back of tongue,
inside cheeks, roof of mouth, etc. Some wines are concentrated in terms of
where they hit the pallet. This wine was like setting off a "fun mine" in
my mouth. It was very pleasant, rounded and an overall wonderful first
impression.
Finally, I will admit enjoying about one-third of the wine the first
evening. I then let the wine sit on the shelf two nights. I did not
evacuate the airspace in the bottle. Tonight I enjoyed the rest of the
bottle. In that time the wine held its own and was still very enjoyable.
The '08 Magnafique was smooth and rounded. In a very positive way it
lacked some of the characteristics of younger wines, thereby letting more of
the fruitiness through. The wine has a very nice and rounded nose to it.
We very much enjoyed the bottle. Thank you for sharing! You 'dun very
good!
-- Bruce & Christie Mayes
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