by Salil » Thu Apr 05, 2012 10:12 pm
Couldn't resist breaking into a bottle soon after I got my 2010 Gonons from Chambers. Opened with very high expectations, and this certainly lives up to them. It's incredibly fragrant with a lovely scent of pepper, violets and red fruited flavours that keeps building and developing with air, and a sense of remarkable purity and finesse on the palate with more savoury and saline flavours emerging with air. The balance is impeccable with bright acids keeping it very precise and vibrant and fine grained tannins beneath the fresh fruit, and there's remarkable persistence. Fantastic wine that I'm glad I went long on.
