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Sunday, June 16, 2013 - The first of two bottles purchased online last year. It was decanted off a medium amount of sediment then poured back into the clean bottle and allowed to aerate slowly for 1 hour before serving with chicken provencale.
An extrordinary example of well made Chinon at maturity. The color was a strikingly clear medium brick with suggestions of old leather, baking spices, forest floor, dried roses, and an herbal edge. The tannins were silky smooth and everything was in total harmony. The palate impression was pure, precise, refined, and elegant and it just lasted and lasted. We finished the bottle with a cheese selection and there was another dimension that emerged which I can only describe as ethereal. I hope the 2002 and 2005 I have cellared will some day reach this level.

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