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Tuesday, October 13, 2020 - 1939 Cheval Blanc Dinner....despite a typhoon. (L'Envol Restaurant, St. Regis Hotel, Wan Chai, Hong Kong): Cloudy, slightly faded semi-transparent dusky ruby.... looks old. Nose is immediately WOW!....beautiful new shoe leather, white shoe cream, cedar smoke and deep confit red fruit like a jelly made by a Michelin*** chef. Really beguiling. Palate is ridiculously fully mature but still hitting on all cylinders.... subtle, elegant, alive and alluring with predominantly cherries purity of fruit. Almost no tertiary elements except that the tannin is gone but the remainder is so floral, fresh and elegant so there is a contradiction with my initial impression....who cares! The finish is subtly long and very reverberant ‘inside the head’ on the finale. All natural from the original release and it showed....like driving an original Porsche 911 from the 1960s whereas the 'reconditioned' 1939 Cheval Blanc drank alongside it feels more like a Singer 911, re-built but still very true to its original. For me the Las Cases won it on the night but by a small margin and who really cares when you have the rare opportunity to drink two such rare wines side by side.

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