Montes 2005 Cabernet-Carmenere, Limited Selection

(May 20, 2015) … So here I am opening a leaky bottle I found in the cellar … I’m not sure what most people do with those bottles that have demanded attention because their partial contents are on the floor – but I always advise an open-and-see approach … You’d be surprised to find that a leaky bottle could actually be good, the trick is to find out just how compromised it is. Smell and taste were in unison here: smoky and lots of dried fruit, very dried fruit, with an exceptional amount of cedary notes … As the wine lingered in the glass those dried fruit notes, for lack of a better term, dried up leaving no hint of fruit here at all – but I don’t think it was compromised too badly because of the cork – I think the age played a bigger part here.