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Sunday, November 22, 2020 - well what does one do when you are coming to the end of an amazing dinner with one of the greatest group of old rare wines shared with wonderful company in one of Melbourne's greatest restaurants - La Luna. You have ended the night with a cheese platter and 1980 Dyquem and it is decided by our beautiful waitress Lauren that a "chaser" is needed. So she digs into the box of wines we bought that had not been opened yet and comes back downstairs with an 1983 Grange and immediately opens it. I love this vintage of Grange with its crushed ants, dense brooding blackberry fruit and dark thick viscous palate. its the opposite of the 1982 which whilst also stunning is more fruit forward , open and delicate and ready to drink. this 83 is like the younger overweight crappy attitude sister who as a parent you still love to death but know that it will have to reach half a century before you can coherently communicate with it. as I said in the initial notes of the 2012 Bollinger review that its a tough gig for such a cracking bottle of 83 Grange to come last in scores when on its own it is likely to be wine of the night on any other day. but it is what it is, it was superb, too young, too backward and outclassed on the night but i would still drink it anyday.

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