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Sunday, March 12, 2023 - Opened this to celebrate a friend's milestone, so no formal notes.

At first was pretty closed and had a touch of a stewed fruit quality, but opened up after 30-60 minutes. Nice red fruit and minerality.

I enjoyed this wine, but I will admit that it felt on the decline, which inspired me to also open up a bottle of 2013 Occidental SWK Vyd., fearing that my handful of remaining bottles may be starting to go to waste. The SWK was a completely different animal and had so much more life to it. My reason to include this anecdote is that perhaps my experience with this specific bottle of 2012 Cuvee Catherine was a bit of a fluke, or perhaps this bottling just reached maturity much faster. I will leave that judgment call up to you, but me personally, if I had any remaining bottles of 2012 Catherine, I would drink up sooner rather than later.

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