Yorkshire lunch with JD. At least partially corked. Old claret leathery with little nose. It is impossible to know if it is gone or just a specific bad bottle.
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At lunch with JD in Yorkshire Inky deep purple with lots of black currant fruit and a fair mouthful of tannin making for a chewy experience. I think this will continue to develop though the cork was bad as I have experienced with other early Arietta bottling so there could be issues with individual bottles.
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1989 Château Palmer
4/28/2024 - asiabear wrote: flawed
Yorkshire lunch with JD. At least partially corked. Old claret leathery with little nose. It is impossible to know if it is gone or just a specific bad bottle.
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1999 Arietta Merlot
4/28/2024 - asiabear Likes this wine: 94 Points
At lunch with JD in Yorkshire Inky deep purple with lots of black currant fruit and a fair mouthful of tannin making for a chewy experience. I think this will continue to develop though the cork was bad as I have experienced with other early Arietta bottling so there could be issues with individual bottles.
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1998 Arietta Merlot
4/27/2024 - asiabear Likes this wine: 93 Points
Dinner in Yorkshire with JD. Lovely nose and just about perfectly mature at this point.
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