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• JohnMcIlwain Likes this wine:

  February 17, 2024 - From half bottle. Took an hour to get running after a brief decant but this continues to be a bit circumspect. Black and red fruit, a hint of licorice, and plenty of savory earth and herbal notes dominate. Appropriately sinewy for Montazi and the vintage, but there’s sufficient ripeness and sucrosity within. Fireworks aromatics in the mouth—well, I’ll be a Yankee Doodle Dandy! I sense the wine is just ready to plant its flag and bellow its screed, but the “yawp” awaits. Hold if you have a few. Very good wine in a tough vintage. And certainly enjoyable tonight but I sense its opportunity to contain multitudes is still a couple of years of cellaring away. And now to brush up on my Whitman…

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