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Tuesday, December 31, 2013 - OK, stick with me here, because I'm about to break out some terms that will certainly mark me as a wine douche...

The attack on this bottle is not shy; right up front I got that sweet dark, red fruit you'd expect, and on the finish, there's that brandy with which port is fortified, so full of alcohol and oak, and caramel as it is. If I were a St. Bernard, I would happily wear a small cask of this around my neck while rescuing you from an avalanche, dear reader.

But what I like about this wine is the middle. You know the good part. Whereas so many wines show hollow, this was like swallowing a round ball of blackberries, dates, and figs. Really, I'm not making this up. This is an excellent bottle of wine. My friend thought it finished a little hot, and I wanted to punch him right in his mouth, because I thought it finished excellently.

I announced that we should be eating blue cheese with this, and my friend's wife produced a large wedge of stilton, then added, "I think we should be eating figs with this."

And so, we ate them both, and drank the bottle while ringing in the New Year (2014). I'm rating this a 93, which is lower than where it will be years from now after growing in complexity. It's so youthful, after 20 years, that it felt like infanticide. Hold on to your bottle for another 20 years, and you might even feel the same. It's gonna last a while is what I'm trying to say.

My New Year's resolution? It's the same as it is every year. I resolve to live more like a woman, because that's the best way I can imagine being a better man.

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