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• oldwines Likes this wine: 96 points

  February 9, 2024 - Pre-Super Bowl Gentlemen's Dinner (New Jersey, USA): In my cellar since release. Decanted around 3:30pm and served with the second course around 7pm. Shockingly youthful from the start of decanting. The bouquet was immediately evident, earthy yet powerfully fruity and complex, this got better and better. It was hard to pace myself and not drink this down quickly, so tasty! Still bright and relatively energetic, marvelously silky mouthfeel…this is why these “old-school” Bordeaux are so great when aged well. It still had great predominantly red fruit but amplified with cassis and graphite, not to mention cedar, sweet pipe tobacco and earthy mushroom/forest floor. Very long, luxurious finish. This was the best wine of the flight alongside 1983 Cos d’Estournel and 1983 Canon pretty unanimously with the order of the other two varied by individual. Overall, all three wines were very similar and of great quality with nuances separating them. As they sat in the glass, the subtle nuances were visible but initially in the glass they were almost indistinguishable.

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• vinus_operandi commented:

  2/11/24, 7:54 AM - all three of these bordeaux drank young and benefited immensely from oldwines great cellarage

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