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Saturday, January 12, 2019 - In my cellar since the late 1980’s and my last bottle, served to my daughter and new son-in-law (and a few others) at their wedding, representing his birth year. Double decanted at 11am and tasted around 9pm. Some of the recent tasting notes on the wine seem rather disappointing and I was fearful this might not be very good but I was quite surprised. When first tasted while decanting this was clearly inferior to the 1984 but to my pleasant surprise it put on considerable weight and exploded with fruit and layers of secondary flavors much later in the evening. There was some brett present to be sure but this was a case where it did seem to enhance the experience of the wine. Very earthy, barnyardy but also with leather and chocolate along with some brighter cherry fruit rather than darker fruit that showed in the 1984. I think on the whole the 1984 was a touch better but this was a very pleasant experience.

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