From the Cellar
Aresti 2004 Winemaker's Assemblage (Chile)
24 Dec 2014- Details
- Category: Uncorked Tonight
(October 26, 2014) ... This wine decided to play possum. In true let-your-wine-aerate fashion this Aresti 2004 Winemaker's Assemblage started out slowly, almost shyly, with aromas of smoke, licorice, cinnamon, tree sap and oak ... it was the tree sap that seemed curiously out of place. Palate lacked fruit, be it dry or sweet, but seemed loaded with pipe tobacco, smoke, and bittersweet cocoa, think of a well made hot chocolate. Within an hour there was a smoothness that emerged across the mid-palate with hints of cassis and smoked blackberry on a finish that showed a touch of gritty tannin.
