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• cartey Does not like this wine: 88 points

  May 23, 2018 - I don't think this bottle holds up well. Upon opening the wine was jammy and on the sweet side, slightly hot too. After 2 hours, wine softened without changing, but complexity fell apart. Sweetness/jamminess became more obvious.
  Should've drunk it on release.

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• bularry commented:

  5/24/18, 11:06 AM - any chance it is just in some sort of dead spot between "young" and a bit of age? I've got a couple but never tasted one at release.

• cartey commented:

  5/25/18, 9:40 PM - @bularry,
  I think different people have different preferences on "agedness". My palate leans more towards aged old-world wines, but I find myself to prefer younger new-world cabs to older.
  That said, to help myself understand DeLille's wine a little better, I opened a 2012 Four Flags tonight. THAT is a wine, to me, that's caught in the middle, that is in the middle of transformation to something greater, to something more complex. It's awkward today, but I'd happily hold on to them longer.
  The 2013 Shaw Cab, unfortunately, was nothing close to the Four Flags. The '13 Shaw is jammy and sweet with little back bone. You can open one soon to judge for yourself, or gamble and just age both of them for much longer and see if something else happens.

• bularry commented:

  5/29/18, 7:17 AM - excellent information, thanks for sharing

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