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Saturday, February 25, 2017 - From a half bottle, first pour from a Coravin, no decant, drank over 3 hours.

A exuberant, full sensory experience, I smelled and sipped this wine while watching Nocturnal Animals, a great movie filled with passion, tension, emotion, and introspection. This wine filled me with the same.

The aromatics were already filling the room as it was poured from the Coravin. A wave of bright red fruit, cassis and raspberry. Over the night the wine showed so many sides, so many different red fruit aromatics, and then waves of cigary oak. Earlier on, I got this blackberry and lead pencil nose that is so Pauillac, but the wine has such a diversity of bouquet, it was hardly austere like a typical Pauillac. At one point, the nose was filled with chocolate and coffee, that it reminded my wife of Kahlúa.

The palate is intense, full of red fruit, oak, and cigar. At first the tannic frame was present but subsumed by the fruit, later it came out forcefully as many scenes in the movie did, but by the end the tannins had integrated and the finish had lengthened into something very lovely.

I would not decant this wine, if you like complexity. This wine makes me wonder about giving last week's Mouton 1986 a 98 point score, because somehow it seems to transcend that wine, and the other 4 first growths from 1986 I had together with it.

In a word, incredible!

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