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Tuesday, February 6, 2018 - This Chard from 2011 is still going strong. Wild, visceral nose of lemon curd and rind, curry spices, buttered toast, wet chalk, astringent green fruit (gooseberries and lime leaves), grass and cilantro, and a little kerosene-laced Indian mango. Prickly and turbulent yet cohesive. Palate is an initial squirt of lemon juice, time apparently doing little to mollify these fierce acids, followed by a broad, expansive array of green and yellow pears both oriental and occidental, cider apples, raw cashews, tallow, tangerine peel/kumquat, musk, Epsom salts, maybe a hint of golden raisin. Finish loops back to sour candy and underripe green fruit territory, salt on the rim of a margarita glass, and lasts for an eternity. This beast is glamorous yet rustic, agile yet puissant, all at the same time. Has a potentially polarizing thiol character (“musk” in polite company, “cat pee” for us plebs), which I think integrates well with the pome fruit, minerals, and marzipan/almond to yield a blockbuster.

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