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• Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 91 points

  April 25, 2024 - 5/12. In light of my last note I carefully aerated the bottle into a decanter. It made a difference—it drinks beautifully and immediately (with scratch einkorn patty melt, sub baby farm leeks.) This tastes best right at 59° F, aka 15* C.
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  48 hours later, I'm mildly surprised to find it even more compelling—sappy, concentrated, compacted information, into sharp, obscure shadow; licorice; menthol; berry tar. All of this is seamless with cheerful green herbal tea acidity. The bottle preceding this one, 106 days ago, now seems like it might have been a fluke.

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• Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 91 points

  January 12, 2024 - 4/12. Active aeration unlocks this drink. NOSE: Blueberry, mint, pencil (lacquer, pine, and lipid graphite), French prune, wintergreen, coastal scree, black licorice, blackberry, raspberry, and bay laurel. (!) MOUTH: after a 30 minute temper, it is a glad and concentrated expression of flowing texture and fresh botanical arrangements. Tannins are ever as stiff, but now halfway melted into fruit glycerin. Acidity has expanded in a lateral direction—saline; roasted earth scrub; intensely floral. Brisk, inky, and crushable. Also: so utterly sincere and fulfilling of its claims that I wonder what world I wandered into. It's kind of at a perfect point right now.
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  24 hours later, resealed tabletop, the drink is richer, rounder, and sweeter. I like it best 1-5 hours after first opening.
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  (I'll admit to superstitious worry about the synthetic plug closure. Maybe I should drink six of the other eight bottles this year. What sort of picnic would that be? Where would it be?)

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• Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 91 points

  May 15, 2023 - Backyard mint trim went for a hot infusion in residual lamb fat. That was the proximate cause for this choice of wine from the basement.
  
  3/12. NOSE: restrained even as it suggests deep, inky substance. Wild, maritime blueberry coulis, mint, wet puppy, and nori jam predominate, yielding eventually to instances of raspberry, arak, maduro wrappers, chocolate, and larks' tongues. MOUTH: a weighty, plush fabric is put in motion by sweetly ripe berry acids. Satin-textured saline carries a fine, sooty dust of tannin. Fruit is so abundant that it obscures earth. A breath of iron appears on a finish that bends in a savory direction. This tastes like freshly made wine. Uncontroversial and fundamentally delicious.

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• Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 91 points

  October 20, 2022 - 2/12. Decanted off. Fully sweet natured now. Florid, pungent. Mint-scented prune juice. Sticky blue grass. Sturdy, lithic bones. Almost embarrassing in its abundance of favor.

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• Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 91 points

  July 15, 2022 - 1/12. NOSE: blueberry, blackberry, juniper, roses, 3-mercaptohexanol, latex, kelp, and graphite. MOUTH: dense, easy grasp of pulpy, black berry juice. Cottage tannins. A tar-textured mat of musky jam grip leads to a contained burst of brisk, minty acids on the finish. Energetic. Juicy. Dry. Opaque. *Kirsch.* Compared to 2009-2018, this feels like Côt and/or Cabernet Franc might be influencing the Gamay—or maybe Gamay Teinturier? This will almost certainly drink even better after 24 hours open. Sensational with spicy, garden fresh food.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2020
• Type Red
• Producer Pierre-Olivier Bonhomme
• Varietal Red Blend
• Designation Le Telquel
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region France
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation Vin de France

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• Consumed 8 (80%)

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