1999 Roger Sabon Lirac Chapelle de Maillac

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  12/21/2022 - Fractalage Likes this wine:

  Probably decanted a touch early, as there was very fine sediment that I could see tumbling out with the clear juice.
  
  The smell was incredible. It was like smelling pulverized granite. Absolutely dry. No fruit on the nose. Barn, straw, rotting straw, wet barn with decaying organic matter, smoke, wood fire, coal fire, hearth, green of pea husks, lilacs.
  It was sweet on the palate and just as complex with steely and baking spices, smoke, tobacco, sweet tobacco with drying aftertaste.
  
  Really enjoyed this.
  
  Most would be turned off, I'm sure, but for me this was excellent.
  
  It kept evolving for hours. I'll have to leave a bottle to slow ox a full day to see what happens.

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  7/23/2011 - Ben Christiansen wrote:

  Frankly, not too bad on day two.

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