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Saturday, August 27, 2016 - From a perfect cellar bottle, nice and clear. Short cork but high fill and no leaks. Nose is equally split between bright red fruit (cranberry and raspberry with mandarin orange emerging) and savoury notes of leather, chestnut and truffle. It smells old straight out of the bottle, but with air this becomes sweet cherry. In the mouth this initially also seems a little tired, with acidic tertiary flavours, but with about 15mins in the glass it blossoms and becomes very powerful with a huge finish of herbs, rose and a touch of orange that seems to build in intensity until it finally ends in a gorgeous finish that was initially very dry and savoury but became pipe tobacco and then smoke with air. Fantastic interest and a joy to drink. After 30mins this doesn't fade but actually gets sweeter with a stronger potpourri nose. The wine actually held up for 4hrs(!) when it had wonderful fireplace aromas of smoke and wood, and gorgeous rich mouthfeel with plenty of smoke. I'm sure it would have lasted longer but by this point it was too delicious and I drank it all. Almost like a more acidic (and slightly more powerful) 82 LMHB by the end and a wonderful experience! 3 bottles left and no hurry at all to drink up... this REALLY benefited from air.

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