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pgrzesik Likes this wine:

Saturday, December 23, 2017 - Decanted 30 minutes and then drank. What a magnificent wine!

You can smell this wine across the room! Notes of very pleasant soft vanilla, cherries, licorice, graphite, leather, cedar. The list goes on and on. It is just so pleasant.

On the palate this is perfectly balanced. The tannins are still present - but they are so well integrated now. This wine is 18 years old today - but it still tastes youthful and shows its age also. Perfect acidity, long finish, layers of complexity. This must have been a massive wine years ago, but feels like it is just entering its prime drinking point right now. Its 13.5% alcohol is perfect, it feels like an "old world" Napa.

If you have this wine - please drink it now - it is in a perfect place. You will really enjoy it and reward you!

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