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Sunday, January 15, 2017 - I have to weigh in on this 'minor' wine, because the other notes here do not do it justice. I dug up a few bottles while racing around trying to avoid damage after a pipe sprung a leak in the cellar. With no preconceived notions, opened it with a simple roast chicken dinner. The color remains youthful clear deep red. The nose is wild cherry, a bit of thyme, 'pretty' would be an appropriate word. On the palate, there is refinement and delicacy I would not expect from run of the mill Cotes du Rhone Villages. Medium weight, fresh, with some fine grained tannins showing but not obtrusive. Silky, fruity, appealing, with the slightest note of warm licorice at the bottom end. On day two, even better.

All the wine needed, evidently, was a decade tucked away and lost in the corner of a dark, cool cellar.

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