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Saturday, October 26, 2013 - We attempted to open a bottle of this wine; the cork on the first bottle was defective, and the top half of it broke into pieces...we could not remove the bottom half of the cork, no matter what we tried. So, we opened a second bottle, and this rating is for that one.

I was astonished, to find at first pour, a wine that tasted very young and primary, despite 15 years in the bottle. But we did not lose patience, and, making successive small pours, swirled the wine in our glasses quite a bit; and, gradually the wine revealed itself, to show a very pleasant, perfumy, feminine expression of Cote-Rotie. The nose still is restrained (once one gets past the Brett by swirling), but the palate expresses lots of flowers, raisins, cigar box, and complex minerality. This is a Cinderella of a wine that needs a Prince Charming to whirl her around on the dance floor in order to show herself in the best light. 88 upon pop-and-pour, 92 after aeration.

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