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Saturday, September 26, 2020 - A very dense, compact ("reduced") wine. Broodingly dark in the glass; nose of dark fruit (black cherry?), wood and muted spice. It was initially open but has now after three hours closed down, becoming solid and actually rather formidable; the taste is going through the same transformation. Texture and weight have now completely taken over from flavour (bye-bye black cherries, or whatever you were), and the colour is virtually black.

A truly unusual, transmorphic wine (and as I go back to it now, it has changed yet again, the nose regaining a little of the perfume it began with a while ago). This is a wine that is pushing my capacity for description and appropriate terminology, but is one of great quality.
I suspect it will not reveal its Delphic secrets until tomorrow. Or possibly it will not reveal anything at all until another bottle is opened in 2030.

p.s. I initially sent down these notes thinking I was drinking 2014 Marchand Tawse. Apologies to all concerned

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