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Thursday, May 3, 2018 - Pulled in accordance with the urging of this recipe >> http://www.winespectator.com/webfeature/show/id/Dining-Tip-Vegetable-Curry-Aged-Red-Wine?utm_source=internal&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=most_popular

which suggests that an aged red is a good accompaniment with this curry. Good cork, and excellent color! Deep ruby in the glass with slightly thinning edges but no bricking. The nose initially featured some tomato leaf and iron, but with 15 minutes of air came around nicely. Dark cherry, plum, leather, oak spices on the palate, medium+ bodied with a decent finish. This was indeed an excellent pairing for this dish. Neither the food nor wine overshadowed the other.

In sum, this bottle was MUCH better than our last one amazingly six+ years ago, demonstrating that at 18 years of age in California cabernet there are mostly good bottles rather than vintages. I hope we all continue to open up 'good bottles'!

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