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• HowellMountainCru Likes this wine: 95 points

  January 11, 2023 - Took this to a blind tasting of BDX and Napa Reds with a new group in the Naples hosted wonderfully by new friend KenK. The tasting featured 8 quality and diverse wines. Several of the group seem to favor the BDX palate so it was a big surprise to me that this wine was ranked WOTN. I attribute this to the fact that these experienced tasters valued both the quality and balance of this wine and its fairly unique fruit profile relative to the other wines presented.
  
  A quick note on that- 3 Lynch Bages, of different years, 2 other Fr wines, 2 Checkerboard vintages and this Hourglass.
  
  The French wines were firmly in the red or red/black fruit family.
  Most had somewhat muted fruit at least for my palate.
  
  The 2009 Checkerboard, which was my WOTN was black fruited and wonderfully alive and balanced. But the Hourglass was drinking beautifully and exhibited unique blue notes. Great showing again 95 HMC

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