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Sunday, December 20, 2015 - This arrived at our house five days ago. Ordered while visiting winery last month. I know it was all wrong to open this today -- bottle shock, travel shock, couldn't be younger. But we were having a tasting of the newly acquired wines with friends, so we popped, decanted for 90 minutes, and went to work on it over about five hours -- along with four other 2013 Napa cabernets (Mending Wall Cab, Chappellet Signature Cab, Bremer Family Cab and Kelly Fleming Big Pour).

Poured thick, inky purple. All tannin and muscle and alcohol here. As time went on, this monster started to show its inner beauty. Fruit and sweetness appeared. At 2:45 after opening, it was just starting to drink nicely.

Massive depth. Incredible structure. Layers of flavors. Vanilla. Black fruit, blue fruit, red fruit. Muscle but elegance. Really, exceptional.

There's 30 years in this bottle, with at least the first dozen of those being rising, evolving, improvement years.

Consensus wine of the day. Mending Wall a relatively close second.

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