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  • 5.7.23 Good fruit, Good length Drink now

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  • Cassis, with earth and touch of forest floor on nose. Palate of ripe dark cherry, and slightly underripe blackberry and blackcurrant adding some acidity. Some cedar, dark spices and smoke on the finish. Fairly deep and decent complexity.

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  • Addendum -nite 3
    On this last night of this magnum, the walls of this wine came tumbling down

    The colour intensity was the same. The nose slightly subdued and the palate lost it's fresh berries and turned more cooked. The earthiness was that of potting soil and, the viscosity had succumbed to the air.
    With that, and knowing this was a magnum, I think this wine needs to be watched earlier then I initially thought.
    2030, and every year thereafter.

    Last sips, oxidized, reduced. Seems strange to me.
    This is already 16 years old. Another decade gets it to 2033. To me, that's when this wine will be outside of this presently fabulous drinking window

    Addendum - nite 2
    This wine just keeps getting better. Additional structure and silky tannins, which will extend the longevity.

    Rather than think it's going to 2040, or 50, I think it's better to start checking this diligently at least every 5 years from 2028. I think some critics assessed this wine at en primeur, and without the benefit of 16 years of bottle age. This very well child get to 2040 without stretching it's legs.
    But, I have had this magnum, rather than 750ml bottle. So take my comments with the 2x bottle size grain of salt.

    It's been a while since quaffed a Magnum of any wine, but over the next couple of nights, I'll enjoy a favorite.
    Have loved this wine forever. In good and lousy vintages. This sample is aligned.

    Maybe it's the Merlot? Highest proportion in Pauillac!
    And, I guess it doesn't hurt to have a few choices in St Julien, and that the vineyard runs alongside both Latour and Las Cases!
    Hell, maybe even I could grow great fruit? 🤣

    Popped the cork, decanted into a Magnum decanter. Let it sit 30 minutes(from what I read from my fellow CT wino's, though many said longer...)

    The critics aren't as high on this wine as usual, I assume because the vintage scored about 86-89. Interestin?
    As usual, this is an elegant, silky wine.

    Medium -Deep Ruby/Garnet
    Dark fruit mostly, plums, black currant, black cherry
    Fennel, dried herbs, menthol/eucalyptus

    Earthy, mushrooms, tobacco
    More tannic as it opens on this first day


    Viscosity- enraptured mouthfeel, creamy
    Acid high
    Alcohol high
    Tannic. Silky yet far from resolved, time needed though this needs to be monitored ever few years, so as not to be disappointed!
    It's fabulous now. It will likely be slightly better in the next 5 fears?
    Seriously watch this one. It's already got that "drink me now" sensation, and others have indicated there's no point in waiting. I'm not certain I agree with that assessment, but, it's not got 20 more years etc!

    This is a very good wine!

    CS 58%
    M 36%
    PV & CF 6%
    13% abv
    Super second.

    PS-Drink The Rainbow!

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