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Wednesday, January 11, 2023 - Taking my goodbyes of an old friend. Again…
Plopped it in August last year, and it slowly grew, month-by-month. Still very toung.

The sommeliers I served it to (blinded) all concluded a white wine, as the pigmentstion most certainly suggests a very mature white.

Nose: out of this World! Rich, precise, intense, enticing, mellow and all over the place when it comes to aromatics.: figs, unsmoked pipe tabacco, great Madeira, darjeeling TGFOP, earl gray, wet assam tea leaves, wet clay, citrus, autumn (no mushrooms, mainly wet leavs in frosty air), Irn Brw and sunshine on mahogany with a bit of Oloroso nuttiness … and so much more complexity. "Autobahn - Kraftwerk"

In the mouth… Yehowah!
As Oloroso was the last thing to strike my mind on the nose, it was the first component to greet me on the palate. This is almost perfect, with sweet dried and pungent fruits en masse, tobacco happy lnd, tea leaves potpurri, christmas spice (Swedish version), Irn Brw once again proving itself to be the nerds' nectar, brown sugar, molasses, Marmite (the antipleasure from Vegimite), warm stones with mud, Moscatel de Setubal and richesse to faint, late summer feelings, sweet young love, long, ultra complex, balanced and fantastic…

There's (unfortunately) a tiny harsh and unyielding element here, and I don’t think it's going away. More like a blemish from not rigorously enough removing the wrong grapes from the fermenting vats.

But, what a spectacular wine!

Once again, the VDN shows how important it is to enjoy it over a few months.

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