Taste it Again / Lost & Found
Taste it Again: Featherstone 2007 Gamay Noir
23 Mar 2015- Details
- Category: Lost & Found / Taste it Again
(December 31, 2014) ... New Year's Eve, Chinese food is ordered and now its time to pick out the last bottle of the year, what should it be? For some reason I found myself in the wine fridge pulling out a bottle of Featherstone Gamay from 2007 ... A hot vintage in Ontario, but the question is: does Gamay like the heat over the long haul? I'm about to find out. The nose comes across in a pleasant way with notes of black cherry and anise; while the palate has sweet dried black cherry, anise seed, lively tannins, and a long cedar mixed with cherry finish. As the chill wears off of this one some odds things begin to happen. First there is a kind of minty-earthy-cranberry note that develops on the nose, after about an hour and a half open. The palate also starts to play a few odd tricks developing sour cranberry and anise on finish - which truthfully is not far off from what you'd expect from an older Gamay wine, sure its still relatively pleasant, but with more tannin and acidity on the finish than one would expect. I think if you have some in the cellar, the time to drink is now, this one isn't going to get any better.
