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• Paul S wrote: 93 points

  April 4, 2009 - Sasi's farewell tasting (Richfield, Lam Soon Building, Singapore): This looked the youngest wine of the day, with a dark core and a still pinkish rim. Really, really tight at first, nose was mostly dominate by glycerin, varnish and I thought just the slightest hint of metallic. Same thing on the palate – velvety tannins notwithstanding, I found the wine rather tight and hard, with quite a bit of extract and lots of acid. Its rich, plump cherry notes were about the only attractive feature. A couple of sips and I set the glass aside to drink the other goodies first. Thankfully, it evolved very nicely in the next half-hour. The varnish and glycerin peeled away to show earth, mushroom and pleasant cherries tones interwoven with coffee notes. Still young and tight, but pretty pleasant. Returning to the palate, I found it a lot more opened, with more of the rich cherry tones, morellos I thought, along with a touch of ginger and a finish that lengthened and stretched out in the mouth with time, showing crystalline fruit, orange peel and flowers. Very nice indeed, with superb quality of fruit, but it needs a lot more time yet.

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