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Friday, March 22, 2013 - Runny Returns.....the Great Australian Wine Dinner. (Chez Patrick Restaurant, 2/F, Garden East, 222 Queen's Road East, Wan Chai, Hong Kong): This smelt and tasted of sewage water on opening the rather crumbled cork. Decanted for 8 hours beforehand then drank over 3 hours alongside Grange 1980 and Grange 1986 (plus some other great Australians). Semi-translucent, purple-red colour with no variance between core and meniscus. Nose is high-toned, nail varnish, sharp black cherry....younger and less open than you'd expect as a Grange afficionado. Ah, and then the nose comes into precise focus.....cut, poised, chisel-jawed, aloof....like a Prussian soldier standing in at Buckingham Palace....wow, a jeweled precision in its cut. Palate is ooh, gosh!...deep, rich rounded, succulent confit plum, confit prunes, black licquorice, thick opium smoke and all wrapped up in a swathe of billowing red brick dust, red bitter cherry boiled sweets from childhood....and that same jeweled precision and Prussian aloofness and cut. The length and resonance was chiffonesque......constantly shifting in the breeze....like chasing the Dragon. Of the Granges drank alongside, if the 1980 was a beautiful 55 year old woman who would have stopped traffic a few years ago and still looks great....and the 1986 is a 21 year old who doesn't even know that she can stop traffic..... the 1983 is the the woman who doesn't even notice that you just walked into a lampost in Central admiring her, she's used to it.

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