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Frank Murray III wrote:

Friday, June 15, 2018 - Blind Wines with Indian Food (Basanti in San Juan Capistrano, CA (South OC)): Poured blind. Initially, it was cool from the cellar and that affected my early guess, as it reminded me aromatically of Grenache. It had a face powder, rose petal thing going on and maybe a touch of something volatile. It also began the night firmer, juicy, with hard red candy, again which I believe was due to the cool serving temp. As it had time to warm up, it became more crunchy with some jammy edges of cherry and raspberry. Then when it knitted all together, and I could an hour later swirl it again and then taste it further, it became more like Pinot Noir with some solid strawberry flavor. I landed with PN as my guess but beyond that, no idea as to producer or vintage. All in, this showed very well and is drinking super at 10 years of age.

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