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• sfbikeguy Likes this wine: 92 points

  August 21, 2022 - Last bottle and it was great with a dinner at friends that ordered Snow's bbq. Decanted for 4 hours to get some air. Highly recommend this based upon my prior notes. Note on bottle prep: this wine has tons of fine sediment, so useful to do some decanting. Also rinsed bottle before refilling and transporting.
  
  Sometimes a wine lands great with certain food, and this wine did that both before dinner and with bbq. I have some of the more recent years of the Phelps Cab. Hopefully they'll be as enjoyable. Cheers.

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• gymnastpro commented:

  8/27/22, 10:21 PM - I think the recent renditions (16 and forward) are better than than 10s, 12s etc.

• sfbikeguy commented:

  8/27/22, 10:42 PM - Good to know. Thanks. BTW, I'm going to open another 2004 Backus soon. That bottle was one of the best wines I've ever had from my cellar.

• gymnastpro commented:

  8/27/22, 11:44 PM - OMG yes. 04 backus is one of my favorite wines of all time. Top 5 for sure. It's in a great place right now.

• gymnastpro commented:

  8/27/22, 11:46 PM - And just realized I had asked you about it a year ago. Glad you enjoyed it. I've been trying to procure as many as I can.

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