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Saturday, April 9, 2022 - Brought to Duke's Chophophouse in Hickory NC. Highly recommend this right now, very good QPR wine and in a beautiful spot with several more anticipated good years with proper cellaring - drink or hold but likely not much upside left with further cellaring. Paired well with both veal osso bucco and spicy escargot pizza. Held up well following a stunning '16 Dunn cabernet. Mouth feel softening, now quite well balanced and integrated with the grippy and jammy unctiousness now all gone, well balanced oak present and tannins soft but present. Very dark purple, peripheral bricking starting, full bodied and with a beautiful surprisingly soft long lingering aftertaste. Warm aromatic dark nose with plum, black cherry, blackberry, coffee and a definite hint of mint or eucalyptus. Flavor profile of controlled oak and dark stone fruit up front with a much earthier mid- and late palate of blackberry, black pepper, stone, leather and coffee and a spicy finish of baking spices.

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