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Saturday, November 25, 2023 - Great learning experience with this bottle. Opened and sipped over 1.5 hours. This great food wine was paired with a lamb stew with Rancho Gordo white beans and a recipe from Rancho Gordo that had sherry vinegar and sharp pimenton. The sauce was quite acidic and that prompted opening a wine with acidity like Viña Tondonia. The pairing was perfect and that means the wine was less acidic than the sauce but stood up to it perfectly. After the stew + wine tasting was over the wine was, by itself, wonderful but no longer tasted at all acidic, actually very smooth and complex. It started complex, strong and acidic. I am used to the acidity of Viña Todonia havong enjoyed vintages back to 1970. What stood out in this experience is that my palate changed dramatically through the experience from high acid notice to a complete acid mellowing. One notes in CT itasting notes that the wine is explained as changing over the tasting window. I think what chnged in this experience was less the wine and more my palate. Human tasters are not mechanical lab sensors.

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