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Thursday, May 5, 2016 - When you pull bottles like these out of your cellar and open them, there's always so much built-up expectation for greatness. And sometimes you're let down relative to these expectations. It's really great when a bottle lives up to your internal hype, and even outperforms!

Purchased in the mid-late 90s (who knows before CellarTracker) for I'd guess less than $100 (anyone know what year these would have been sold retail in the US? And a guess for the price?)

Bottle was upright for weeks. I decanted at 5am, left in the decanter for 3 hours and then back into the bottle at 8am. Consumed maybe 10 hours later. So is that 3 hours of decanting or also some 'credit' for the next 10 hours, who knows?

Color translucent ruby. When the wine hit the glass you could smell it across the table. More 'rose petal' and 'cherry' vs 'forest floor' and 'tar'. Sweeter than I would have guessed. Initially a tannin attack on the back end but this vanished after 30 minutes or so (does this mean I should have decanted longer initially? Who knows..). Long finish. Great bottle. I'd guess zero worries about drinking up, you can drink today with a good decanting process or wait for many many years (gonna wait until 2019 for my next one, or maybe 2024 and see if the points can get up to 100!)

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