Tablas Creek Picardan

Excellent This bottle increases the regret of having missed the first few vintages of this varietal bottling and also having missed the 2021. While this was very nice when consumed nearly three years ago, it's at another level now. Wow. First night: Something about this seems to be on a thread from southern France to the Somlo hill in Hungary. I cannot put my finger on it. Palate shows minerals, crushed rock lime with "limesickle" on the nose, fresh hay …

Very good+. I'm behind the times. I missed the first three vintages of this and have a lone 2019 in the cellar. We tacked this onto our tasting more as a refresher, but I liked it enough to buy a couple of bottles. I got notes of lemongrass and underripe tropical fruit (papaya) with some high note herbs and an interesting juxtaposition of minerality and some seashell and an impression of texture that didn't really have any mouth-coating feel. This …