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• Eantnay Does not like this wine: 75 points

  February 26, 2023 - In Feb 2019 this wine was rocking! Deep color, tantalizing nose, velvety tannin. One of the greatest wines I had ever experienced.
  
  Today, that all changed. Sadly, the last two bottles I had were opened and both were over the hill, the first one being worse than the second. The color faded to brick red, the fruit was gone and the aromas went from tantalizing to medicinal. The first bottle did not have anything pleasurable to offer; the second was not as far gone and had some redeeming qualities, but could not hold a candle to what this wine was like 4 years ago.
  
  The wines were stored laying down in a temperature controller wine refrigerator. The corks were in excellent shape. I learned a valuable lesson and will not hold the other vintages that I have of this wine as long.

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5 Comments

• Phenol73 commented:

  2/27/23, 1:08 AM - I find LOTS of bottle variation on these...

• cjsavino commented:

  2/27/23, 3:51 AM - Sounds like they were heat damaged, prior to your possession

• DoubleD1969 commented:

  2/27/23, 6:52 AM - Not sure if it is heat damaged if the bottles were purchased as part of six-pack or case. Bottle variation is a possibility. The 1998 is notorious. However in the post-Covid world, one can't rule out the impact to one's olfactory senses. It will be interesting to see if the OP's notes for other wines show similar experiences after getting the virus.

• Eantnay commented:

  2/27/23, 7:37 AM - In my experience, heat damaged or "cooked" wines present themselves with stewed fruit, prune juice like aromas. These wines presented themselves as being really old and tired.

• zinnut commented:

  3/5/23, 2:42 PM - 729 Tasting notes and at least 95% of them rate this 90 or more. I's say you had a bad bottle. My curiosity got me to open my last one tonight and I will post a note.

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