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• Wil wrote: 100 points

  June 18, 2009 - I don't give out 100 points easily, but everyone agreed this was a perfect bottle. I bought it at a wine restaurant in Switzerland, where the bottle had been stored in a cold cellar since release. The wine was fresh, with that classic cigar box nose and a complex palate that showed tobacco, spice, and some macerated fruits. The finish was spectacular. We kept going back to this wine over and over. In the company of a 1948 Haut Brion (not a great year) and a 1949 Volnay, this was the WOTN. My friend Dirk summed it up nicely: If it were the three of us, we'd want a magnum to share as an aperitif. Then we'd want a magnum with dinner. Then we'd want a magnum of this for dessert, and we'd still probably want some more.

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