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Sunday, January 3, 2016 - Still at the holiday edge, we were enjoying my daughter's short ribs and mushroom risotto, a perfect match for a Bordeaux. The wine had a purple color with just a hint of brown at the rim. On first opening, it was very acidic and tannic, but after a short time, it developed very good balance and definition. It had a very intense bouquet and flavor of bell pepper, making it instantly recognizable as a Cabernet Sauvignon, and probably an old world wine. It had a long finish. I am not a big fan of wines that are so overtly bell pepper. I much prefer wines where the herbal character is muted and softened (think Leonetti) or has been partly or entirely replaced by fruit, most often cassis (think Screaming Eagle), or by very special flavors, such as lead pencil (think Lafite Rothschild), or become all sweet tobacco, the frequent fate of older wines made with this grape (think Haut Brion as a pinnacle example). The wine seems to have come through Hurricane Katrina unscathed.

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