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Friday, July 5, 2013 - Cool: c15 degrees. Surprisingly pale and translucent in light of the vintage. That pale but heavy (and not totally attractive) strawberry jam of my at-home bottle of the '08. A much deeper and more pungent aromatic though. Sweet spice, red licorice, engine oil and red leather. Shimmering, bright and very red. Mouthpopping: huge and round from tannic and alc structure. Acidity washes the material from the mouth like a retreating wave: quickly thinning the material, but then a fine layer lingers on the beach, now showing red fruit, the concentrated essence of red flowers, blood and oxtail! The extract and the tannin then grip the lower palate. Did double-d for 3 hrs, but that didn't change it! With steak, so was drinkable, but it's fairly componential at the moment. The very concentrated strawberry-jam fruit will need to calm down a fair bit; but the concentration suggests that fruit will always be with this wine. Should be pretty amazing drunk lengthily-decanted in c3 years. Will surely have 20 years after that! 90-91 pts of pleasure now; 90. I've ?never tasted a wine with this wild (bizarre) combination of brightness, cleanliness, red-fruited concentration, scale, fine-and-significant acidity and full-skeleton tannic structure. Could (and I think it will) hit 96+ heights in a decade!

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