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Wednesday, July 6, 2022 - Very excited for this one, last bottle was a year and a half ago and I am buying up as many of these as I can.

Light purple, ruby, and just a faint garnet on edges. Nose is absolutely plush with aromatics like spring floral notes, leather, licorice, graphite, toasted oak, dark red fruit, sage or minty menthol, sweet blackberry, baking spice, and sweet tobacco.

Mouthfeel is fairly light and milky, but dark more bitter flavors like oak, licorice, cacao, tobacco and coffee hit you first, followed by the dark red fruit and finishing again with the darker flavors and cigar smoked . All comes together to provide a fantastic balance of slight contrasts, tannins are well integrated. The finish lingers for close to a minute and the wine also reveals good acidity.

The mouthfeel leaves you feeling that this is a soft and very smooth wine but this is offset by a “harsh” (not in a tannic way) finish that quickly erodes any sweetness of fruit notes.

This leads me to believe that this will continue to improve and hasn’t even hit its prime yet. This continues to evolve as I am currently 2+ hours into decanting.

At 3+ hours into decanting this calms down and begins to show more of its true character, some of the more exaggerated characteristics begin to dissipate in magnitude. I believe that’s where this is headed, and I will probably wait until 2024 to open the next bottle.

Fantastic now but the reason I am doing such a long and detailed analysis is because I feel this has not hit its pinnacle and I don’t even think it’s that close yet. Having experienced a lot of aged wine from this producer I believe this has massive potential, maturing earlier than the Mt. Veeder, but many many years of evolution/improvement to follow.

The longer I have this in the glass the more the shining characteristics reveal themselves. I actually believe this has stagnated in terms of drinking window, but it will be back stronger than ever in probably 2024. I plan to stock up as much as possible in that time, I can’t believe this app lists the drinking window’s conclusion at 2025 because I think that is right around when this wine will be reaching its peak.

I don’t recommend you buy this wine…

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