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Tuesday, September 13, 2011 - What a great experience. I rarely open a 40 year old bottle and so was very pleased to find that this wine had a lot of life left in it. On opening it had strong cocoa odor and flavor. We left it to slow oxidize for about an hour and came back to a thinner sharper wine with a hint of prune; not the direction we were hoping for. Gave it about another hour and the fruit flavors came back as did a grippy chalkiness and cocoa. Over the next two hours the wine was strong and complimented a pizza well. It played with the yeast of the doe, the sweet acid of the tomato, the oils of the sausage, etc... this wine was great with food. We ended with a chocolate pairing that was sublime. Worth noting that the bottle had been stood up for about a month. As we drank it became more opaque with with first a brickish tone and then a darker hue.

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