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• Mark1npt Likes this wine: 95 points

  April 27, 2024 - Decanted 2 hours prior to taking to the WGDMs for dinner....
  
  Dark purple in the glass. Sweet cassis and a touch of graphite on the nose. Palate with great weight and blackberry fruit.
  
  A bit peculiar, this one is.....seemed way too jammy and over the top when put into the decanter but when putting it back into the bottle to transport 2 hours later, it seemed very toned down, almost austere. Poured a glass before dinner and the nose is jammy, but the palate much less so with dry blackberry fruit. Carol loved it and pretty much finished most of the bottle herself....feeling no pain on the ride home. Def different than my last bottle one year ago but yet scored the same by me looking back just now. Very high quality here.

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• Cablover1982 commented:

  4/29/24, 6:58 AM - Interesting. I wanna pop my last bottle of '16 this year!
  Cheers Mark!

• Mark1npt commented:

  4/29/24, 11:23 AM - It's def going through a phase, Cab....and like most fruit bombs we buy for their 'fruit bombiness', they don't stay that way forever. This is def at the start of losing that.
  
  Will it tone down and move toward a Shrader like deep aged red or will it be too high in alc and overwhelm what fruit is left down the road? I honestly don't know.

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