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Friday, October 27, 2023 - Best wine I've ever had. Drunk for fiancée's 30th. No decanting or breathing.

Served with fillet steak with home made chimmichuri, carrots roasted with parmesan and parsley, and some home made oven chips roasted in grapenut oil.

We didn't decant or let it breathe in any way, just opened the bottle and poured just before I served food and then drank it over the course of an hour. Initially it was quite light and mellow, smooth tannins and next to no acidity with some flavours of stone and cherry. It was lovely but I worried that it was going to be obliterated by the flavours in the meal.

I was worrying about nothing. It complimented the steak and the very parsley and red chilli-forward chimichurri beautifully, and over the course of the bottle it opened up into something really special. It started to develop some musk and leather on the nose that also carried into the palette, along with some peppery spice and a slight tinge of olive. The tail got longer as it opened up, with some notes of roasted meat that worked perfectly with the meal. We also got a bit of red fruit and raspberry alongside the cherry, with a hint of oak coming out towards the end.

This was definitely one of the best bottles I've had to date and I'm a bit gutted we drank it so quickly, but the combination of mellow tannins and very low acidity meant that it was a very easy drink and it disappeared before me knew it. Considering 1993 isn't known as a particularly good year my expectations were low (and I was obviously anxious about the quality of such an old wine, too) but this absolutely blew me away and I wish I had a second bottle of it. Absolutely stunning.

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