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Friday, February 26, 2021 - This was the 3rd of 3 bottles I had, the last consumed in 2017. The first 2 were excellent, but I wanted to push the envelope on this one and see where it'd go. 1998 didn't have a great rep in Montalcino, but I rolled the dice because they’re a quality producer. Drank the final bottle on a Feb pandemic winter night, together with pizza/pasta. Lesson learned: the cork looked bad - it didn't break, but it had wine stains almost from end to end. I thought it was cooked, but the nose was lovely. The palate on the other hand tasted....cooked. (not corked, but cooked as in raisin-y) I thought I'd waited too long on it. So I did this: I poured out two small glasses and left the rest in the bottle to slow-ox. After 2 hours and with wild boar ragu, the wine was fantastic. The finish lasted for minutes. So the lesson I learned, is to be patient. Even wines that seem cooked after they're first opened, can come around, and this one did.

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