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• BenBlu Likes this wine: 96 points

  June 8, 2019 - High fill, perfectly looking bottle, when cutting the capsule a very worryingly mouldy looking cork shows which is highly porous and I just about manage to extract. At first nose very muted coming. Clear bricking speaking of its age visually. Palate also totally closed. My first thought is hmmm not sure I will get much pleasure out of it. However with air it properly comes into its own. After one hour it is in the zone. The nose is mature with firecracker, liquorice and herbs and some Asian medicine, a tad animale at times and could possibly be misten for a Bdx especially as the firecracker disappears a few minutes after a pour in glass. The nose kept changing and each time you pick up different scents. The palate is highly mineral, very intense penetrating but symmetrical wine which always makes you salivate and reach for the next sip and before you know it the bottle is gone. It is not a archetypical fine Burg but rather a hybrid of hypothetical great red Bdx and Burg - maybe that’s why RP scored this as high as he did. Gosh what a contrast to a Roumier Cras 09 drank the previous night. But I am really loving this wine. I can see this divide the audience though. At times it was a low 90a and at times a high 90s wine depending on the sip I took. It kept changing. Definitely not your monochrome bleu from Yves Klein. 93-97. As drinking window goes I think this is a now wine before it looses more fruit. Drink now - 2020. But do give it an hour in the decanter to come into its own get past the mute stage, then the funk and then it shines!

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• Palisades57 commented:

  12/25/19, 5:59 AM - Going to have a bottle of this soon. If you look at the comments on the wine, a couple of people have decanted it. Do you think this is necessary? Or just slow ox for an hour or so prior to?

• BenBlu commented:

  12/25/19, 8:24 AM - I would pull the cork and taste it as with this age bottle variation is almost a given. If it is a perfect bottle then a half hour to hour decant and then get stuck in and follow it’s evolution is probably best. Hope you enjoy and let us know how you get on!

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