EAST COAST PALATE

This wine had me very excited when I smelled it.  Sticky sweet molasses, mulling spices, resin, flowers, fresh mushrooms... a symphony of aromas eminates from this wine.  The enchantment dissappears, though, after the taste.  It is smooth with a lush mid-palate followed by a tart bite and then a too-quick finish.  Buying this wine for $20 doesn't bother me, but the fact that its original listed price was $47 sort of seems ridiculous.  The magic in this wine is purely olfactory... but I would pay $20 again to smell the complexly woven quilt of aromatics in this wine.  With the acidity that this wine has, I'd like buy a few bottles and try them a few years from now.  Aromas get a 95, overall the wine gets 87 points from me.