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Sunday, March 25, 2018 - Sunday Lunch at Crown Wine Cellars (Crown Wine Cellars, 18 Deep Water Bay Drive, Shouson Hill, Hong Kong): Decanted for 1.5 hours (which seemed about right). Jeweled but dark semi-opaque ruby just lightening slightly at the edges. Nose is classic St. Julien, cedar shingles, autumnal damp bracken, super quite ripe blackberries, warm oak. Palate is fabulous.....deep rich blackberry and blackcurrant fruit, a huge blast of resonance inside your head that grows in a mind-expanding way. Good acidity, which it needs because the typical 1996 Bordeaux tannins are very much present. Wow, still a ton of tannin on the back end. Would be 95 pts if the nose matched the palate...which it started to after 2 hours in the glass as pencil lead and graphite increasingly emerged. Lovely and gained to 93+. Has 10 years ahead of it to improve....I definitely wouldn't open a magnum yet if I had one. I loved this...more so than the 1985 vintage I have a case of.

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