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• Mascarello59 Likes this wine: 93 points

  April 17, 2019 - Tapped with a Coravin and left in the decanter for 4 hours. Very nice aromas of dark fruit, cedar, some oak but also a decent amount of green pepper. Very silky and elegant in the mouth again with the greenness coming through. However it's not of the overwhelming sort but rather more to give a freshness impression. Very good fininsh with medium length. Early drinker given the very silky tannin?

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• Bordeaux 2013 commented:

  5/30/19, 11:51 AM - Thanks for your note. What is your experience with coravin? I‘ve used it for about 10 bottles since I bought it and each time I was disappointed. Every time the bottle deteriorated significantly after only a few days, even though I was very careful in applying it correctly.

• Mascarello59 commented:

  6/1/19, 10:29 AM - I recently opened a bunch, 10-12 Coravined bottles (see my notes from Feb-19, some of these have Coravin comments) and these were first tapped as long ago as 4 years. The majority was tried several times and most of them first time more than a year ago. Overall the tasting group and I all agreed that the result was surprisingly good. None of the wines were bad, most of them were as good as before and maybe one or two slightly worse but on the other hand some of them were quite young and had almost improved from first try. So I would argue the coravin actually does what it promises. Mind you, for very old bottles, say 15 years plus I would tend to agree with you, most of all because the bottle sediment gets disturbed. For younger wines I still think my positive experience is valid. Try again and see what you think...

• Bordeaux 2013 commented:

  6/2/19, 1:00 AM - Thanks for sharing. Will try it again.

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