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Monday, August 10, 2015 - 14.2% alcohol. This has plateaued. Solid red cherry color. Initially, the nose was that brilliant, bright cherry that has made this wine so intoxicating. But it quickly faded out and went through two separate phases. Initially, the wine quite quickly fell off, seeming to lose most of its character. But it came back, reforming as a more complex, secondary wine. Overall, it's very nice but certainly better in its youth. I'm a bit ambivalent about how I feel about it, given just how good it was in its first five years of life. This still had a good line of cherry fruit, and the mushroom and earth notes it took on were compelling. The mouth feel was very good. Just a tad less complete and enjoyable as previously. As if the complexity didn't pack enough of a punch to bring it to its previous levels. A-

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