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• pavel_p Likes this wine: 93 points

  December 12, 2020 - 4 years since I last had this wine, and luckily this is a perfect bottle. In neck/bottle neck fill, clean and dry top of cork with only the bottom third soaked. Slow ox’ed for about 30 min. Still a dark garnet with a fairly wide translucent rim, no browning. Great showing, a touch of cedar on the attack, then iron and rich deep dark fruit integrated with tobacco notes, a touch of sweetness perhaps hinting at Margaux but overall more Pauillac than Margaux in style in 86, fine to medium tannins still providing a solid structure. Medium finish. I love 86 Bordeaux.
  A very solid 93 and the fruit in good bottles like this will easily last another 10 years.

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