1949 Château Talbot

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Sunday, January 28, 2018 - You can tell the instant this hits the palate that it's going to be a great one, then you toss it around in your mouth for two seconds and - boom! - suddenly it pops with even more goodness. The way that second wave hits with so much additional material when you were impressed enough with the wine already was bona fide astonishing. It made me physically giddy. The initial impression was already impressively rich, very thick in material with crimson-toned fruit and a brothy savor. The second wave kicks it up a notch or ten with deeper, midnight-black flavors, not so much in the fruit department as this is evolved and in the primetime zone of maturity, but the sort of indescribable flavors that can't come from anywhere except decades of of comfortable aging which are all so balled up together in that mushroom cloud of intense flavor that I can't put my finger on any one of them. All I can say is that this is a wine that started out stunning and somehow got even better from there.

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