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Tuesday, June 3, 2014 - Birth-year Wines at Bacchanal (SoHo, NYC): Opaque blood; a very deep color, wow! This is a good bottle, praise Jeebus, because it has been hit/miss with this case (bought as a group). Christ, the nose is FUNKY out the gate; this is totally a product of old-world (think: Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still alive, lol) agriculture and projects that onto the screen of your nose and tongue: leather, chocolate, cocoa, blood, sage, seaweed umami… on and on. The palate is sweet and rich, resolved, and plenty alive; more seaweed, leather, umami; funk: funk. Funky. Old world, and precisely what I want here. Sage much? Forever-memories and yoga; like something from some excavation in Old Delhi. Good cocoa length. Drinks well, but please don’t sit on this too long! At the end, it was quite similar in flavor to an amontillado or palo cortado — rich, nutty, dry+sweet, like a dry recioto but not at all raisiny. Extremely mysterious and a real treat.

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