From a bottle with a badly damaged label, a cork that is saturated, but came out in one piece, I wondered how this would show. This pours light garnet in the glass, medium minus bricking. The nose is unyielding at first, but after a few hours in the decanter it begins to show a classic, and cooler bordeaux profile of celery seed, gravel, old cedar, pencil shavings, dried raspberry, dried red currant, forest undergrowth, and a touch of mushroom. The palate is quite resolved. Bright red fruited medium plus acid leads the way with virtually zero tannin, and a medium plus finish of celery seed, gravel, and bright, dried red fruit. Good though not the best bottle of this I've ever had.

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