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Had this at the BAWE "High-End" tasting in a blind Cab flight. Excellent wine with chocolate, cassis, black raspberry, and a bit of tar. Very long finish and intense, but not particularly heavy, mid-palate. I do not know how long the wine was decanted but it was not drinking like a particularly young wine -- not knowing how long it was decanted, I was guessing this wine would be at its best in about 3-4 years and remain there for some time. This was much better than the WA 98-point 1997 Montelena in the flight and held up better than the WS 98-point 1989 Pichon Baron. It was also vastly superior, imo, to the 1990 Dunn that we had after the blind flight. During the flight, it only lost to the 2001 Karl Lawrence Morisoli which was also my WOTN. 93.5 with, perhaps, some room to improve.

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Had this at the BAWE "High-End" tasting in a blind Cab flight. Excellent wine with chocolate, cassis, black raspberry, and a bit of tar. Very long finish and intense, but not particularly heavy, mid-palate. I do not know how long the wine was decanted but it was not drinking like a particularly young wine -- not knowing how long it was decanted, I was guessing this wine would be at its best in about 3-4 years and remain there for some time. This was much better than the WA 98-point 1997 Montelena in the flight and held up better than the WS 98-point 1989 Pichon Baron. It was also vastly superior, imo, to the 1990 Dunn that we had after the blind flight. During the flight, it only lost to the 2001 Karl Lawrence Morisoli which was also my WOTN. 93.5 with, perhaps, some room to improve.

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The wine was splash decanted and then immediately rebottled at about 9am that morning. So it had about 7 hours of double decant before it was tasted.

As I said in the other thread, I thought the wine was showing young and a little disjointed, but showing great potential. I'm not opening any bottles for personal use for at least 3-4 years.

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So you won't open it for 3-4 years for personal use, but what use would you open for within then next 3-4 years?

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And, if that is the case, what kind of allocations will we get??? A cut perhaps??? Hope NOT.

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Any suggestions?

I am tempted to open a 2000 or 2001 but I'm hesitant. Is either one worth opening now and if so how much time would you recommend decanting?

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That's about when my firsts are scheduled, not counting the ones we tasted at the winery.

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Remember I was using my crystal ball routine on these wines my first few vintages with them. One bottle was sacrificed for the sake of science. The rest are scheduled out.