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Sunday, December 11, 2022 - 14.5% alcohol; we purchased it at the winery for $171 (includes a discount for members of Stag's Leap's wine club) on 9/16/2011 and have cellared it for over eleven years under varying conditions ranging from ideal to not so good; real cork, opened at Oak and Ember restaurant, Port St Lucie, Florida; long legs, very dark burgundy/violet; decanted and served at about 20 degrees C; the famed winery, known from the Judgement of Paris, sports a label with founder Warren Winiarski's signature; the winemakers have chosen superior grapes, derived from both volcanic and alluvial soils; the nose bowls you over -- dark cherry, generic cherry, and fruit which doesn't exist, obscure, mysterious, and inviting; full bodied with complex embroidered elements of non-light-colored fruits like cherry, plum, dark cassis, and boysenberry; muted tannins, due in part no doubt to the long cellaring, woven-in sweetness, fruitiness, sourness and minerals; an exceptional wine deserving a pairing with special beef steaks such as Wagyu or Kobe, or try with seafood hors-d'oeuvres like an assortment platter or jumbo oysters on the half shell

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