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Wednesday, May 17, 2023 - By Jove I have been looking forward to trying this vintage. This and the 2019 will make for fascinating drinking pairs, comparing the two fantastic but contrasting vintages of 2019 and 2020. 2019 is a muscle car with a beautiful gear box, whilst the 2020 is a pure sports car, lighter, more nimble into the corners, different but just as good.

I think the blue fruits (the Mataro/Mourvèdre component) add a gorgeous note to this wine. The nose is very pretty, but there is deceptive power to the palate. Truly a wonderful wine. This is the Polish lancers at Somosierra, or better still, at Albuera where, in conjunction with French hussars, they caught Colborne's 1st Brigade in the flank as they advanced on the French line. 3 of Colborne's 4 regiments were rolled up as the lancers did dreadful carnage, even as the ranks tried to form square. Only the 31st Regiment (the Young Buffs) managed to form square in time, but they had to give up their supporting artillery to do so.

If you had the 2019 to deploy with this 2020, it would be like giving Latour-Maubourg a brigade of huge, sweating Cuirassiers, the kind of shock force that might have carried the day after the Polish lancers had done their butchery.

It remains one of my favoured moments of this brutal battle that the enraged British infantry reinforcements let loose a tremendous fusillade at the now scattered lancers only to find that they mostly missed their targets but cut swathes through their own allied Spanish reactionaries. No Clos des Papes for them!

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