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Saturday, December 24, 2016 - Bought magnum for Xmas Eve dinner at Valentino's here in LA. Great price for a restaurant wine list at only $180, and well stored (Valentino's cellar has a great reputation).

Needed about an hour to breathe. Dark and powerful, but beginning to show a little red bricking softness around the edges and that prune-like note I get when a wine is flirting with oxidation. Delicious layers here of mocha, mint on nose, still has some good fruit, and complexity that emerged over a couple of hours. That said, I'd drink this ASAP and not hold it any longer if it were in my cellar.

Probably fine for another couple years if cellared well its whole life, and/or in a larger format bottle but I think smaller format, or not ideally cellared bottles would be past their prime.

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