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Friday, February 9, 2024 - Pre-Super Bowl Gentlemen's Dinner (New Jersey, USA): In my cellar since release. Decanted around 3:30pm and served with the second course around 7pm. This was a little funky when decanted, very earthy but not “bretty” with the air this faded. It was also ever so lightly bricked. When served it had lost the funk and darkened to a rich lightly translucent garnet. Quite minerally and complex with notes of cassis, red berries, leather, mushrooms and hints of tobacco and the nose and palate. This kept getting better in the glass until finished. So youthful and delicious. Smooth as silk in the mouth. This was a rather miraculous bottle amount three marvelous and equally miraculous 1983 Bordeaux. Overall, all three wines were very similar and of great quality with nuances separating them. As they sat in the glass, the subtle nuances were visible but initially in the glass they were almost indistinguishable.

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