VOS (20+ years old), 24E for a 50 cl bottle

The Sánchez Romate was opened and OUCH! It had a horrible pungent stink of varnish that took about an hour to whiff off. We discussed returning the bottle to the shop for about an hour...and discovered the smell was gone! Glad we decided to wait the full hour...after all we had chocolates to wait: David and Carmen had bought the entire Cluizel "Cru" lineup and the three tablets were arranged on the table, only by then it looked excessive already so we focused on the "Concepcion" which is probably the most pairing-friendly. The Sacristía turned out to be an exquisitely balanced wine, not overtly sweet, just 16% alcohol, with mouthcoating density and excellent solera complexity. Needless to say it went beautifully with the Concepcion. 92+