With only 21 days left until the yearly new wine party, we haven't bottled any of the 2010 wines. We don't really figure to bottle any of the primitivo, though we could use our topping gallon, but we do figure to use at least 8 or 10 gallons of the muscat. Obviously it won't get to rest in the bottle at this point: do it now? Days before the party? At the party as a game?
So, I tasted the primitivo this morning.
Still some barnyard odors, but very much dissipated from the last tasting. Lots of cherry. After aerating it a bit there's no hint of the barnyard in the taste - cherry and caramel says my blunt instrument of a tongue - but a very noticeable smoothness and long, long finish that I don't think we've had in any of our other efforts in the last 5 years. Suave. Smoove.
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