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Friday, October 16, 2015 - Another perfect wine from Cayuse! Brick-garnet, with very slight lightening at the edges. Almost completely opaque. Decanted two hours. Sweet dark fruit, bacon, mushroom, leather and tobacco nose, immediate, pronounced, and complex. Very dark, almost black, fruit flavors, with dense anise, some espresso, smoky. Very distinctive. Very concentrated but not heavy...perfectly balanced with underlying tannin and acid. The aftertaste is extremely long, like black licorice. Wonderful Northern Rhone style, at its peak, but should still last for many years.
Tasted at dinner with 2011 Sine Qua Non, which was almost equally outstanding, but younger, more powerful, more closed and youthful.
Ric

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