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• Decanting Queen Likes this wine: 94 points

  March 29, 2024 - Brought to dinner last night at Lazy Betty’s—no liquor license yet in their new location means no corkage fee! Hooray!!
  We brought the ‘14 Larkmead and a ‘96 Comtesse Pichon Lalonde. Turned out to be a great match with our multicourse meal.
  Double decanted at home and then put into a decanter as soon as we arrived at the restaurant. A fair amount of sediment in the Comtesse so glad I had decanted it myself.
  
  This wine was perfect, especially with the duck course. Everything you would expect from a Pauillac drinking at prime. Nose was probably better than the palate, with intense tertiary aromas of tobacco, leather and plums. On the palate plenty of compexity, blackberries, dark cherries, cassis. Nicely balanced. This will continue to evolve nucely but nothing wrong with drinking it now.
  The ‘96 left bank wines are exceptional right now. This was excellent, but not as good as the ‘96 Cos right now which I would put a few points higher.

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3 Comments

• Mark1npt commented:

  4/5/24, 4:19 PM - Sounds pretty good to me! Especially without the corkage fee!

• BellevuePhil commented:

  4/6/24, 3:24 PM - lmao never had a corking fee for daddy.....

• Decanting Queen commented:

  4/6/24, 3:34 PM - Guess you are special. No one has a corkage fee right now so us minions will enjoy it.

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