I paid about $60 for this one a couple of years ago. I was cooking up a nice steak, home-made mashed potatoes and green beans and was looking for something to drink with the meal. I saw the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153S\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and thought to myself that it was one of the $23 current vintages so I pulled it out. I saw what it was and almost put it back. Then I said \u00e2\u20ac\u0153What the heck. It is time.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
Boy did I get that right, as I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think this one could sit any longer. When I pulled the cork, it broke into three major chunks. I figured that the wine was probably toast, but the cork pieces all felt soft and the wine stain did not venture up the side of the cork more than about a quarter-inch.<\/p>\n
The color is intense dark red with nice legs and the aromas are of toasted oak, ripe dark fruit – mostly dark cherry and a bit of dark chocolate.<\/p>\n
It is very smooth with quite a bit of pepper (which went nice with the freshly ground pepper on my grilled steak\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6). There is a bit of cedar in amongst the dark fruit but the wine changes as it sits in the glass. At first the cedar flavor is a bit too intense, but after a few minutes, that burns off and the dark fruit takes over, as it should.<\/p>\n
The finish builds with a bit of heat but then tapers off quite nicely with a touch of mocha at the end.<\/p>\n
I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m glad that I opened this one. I would have been sad if I would have waited any longer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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