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Wednesday, October 19, 2022 - My effusive review of this wine 5 years ago has not held up over time. It's very dark with almost no indication of browning. Nose is muted. The wine is somewhat harsh with a modicum of fruit and a bitter, green-tannin finish. Nevertheless, it would be a fine accompaniment to grilled meats and spicy Moroccan or Middle Eastern dishes.

(8/8/2017) Apparently, there is a lot of bottle variation with this wine. I found none of the mustiness alluded to by other reviewers. Instead, there was very obvious ripe cabernet coupled with an oak polish and still enough soft tannins, perhaps helped by the petit verdot, to keep it going for another 5 years. A really stylish, wonderful Médoc, from a terrific vintage, thankfully from hand-harvested grapes, thus lacking the often green flavors of its machine-harvested neighbors. (Originally rated 91.)

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