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Saturday, April 22, 2023 - Pibran's 2018 offering is an opaque crimson blend of 54% Cabernet Sauvignon and 46% Merlot, aged for 18 month in French oak barriques (50% new). Loaded with black, blue and red fruit on both the nose and palate, it adds complementary notes of lavender, bittersweet chocolate, cedar and white pepper. Medium-to-full-bodied, fresh, seamlessly alcoholic (14%), judiciously oaked and with abundant fine-grained tannins, it stays dense on the mid-palate and concludes with a lengthy, albeit astringent finish. This begs for more time in the cellar, despite the fact that this particular bottle was decanted through a Vinturi aerator and given two hours thereafter to prove its worth. At this early stage it needs all the air it can get. Drink 2025-2038.

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