Goosegogs wrote:
It reminded me of being smacked in the face by a lime soaked oak mallet.
Amazing how different tasting notes can be.
Mel likes her oak with nearly everything. Shez likes his with full flavoured reds.
It's all in the mind ....and body. Mr G, your palate's not accustomed to the mallet
I like cadillacs and loupiacs with decent oak for gathering dust, and then sipping - can you get them in this hopeless country ? NO
I don't particularly want to go there, with that marmalade *turn (evolution) you get with some ripe styles. Fermented just so in french oak - to demi-sec from botrytis fruit is the one for me.