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1 hr decant

85% red juice.

Nose a slightly cautious blueberry variant of the usual TN-dominated Niepoort blackcurrant nose - does this have more of the other varieties in?

However, black wine gums (i.e. the usual cassis with slight hint of rubber) on the palate. Powerful, but this bottle perhaps a touch simple.

Good drinking. While pleased I have another seven bottles, I do not think keeping it indefinitely is a good idea.

"Don't hold it back," says my companion, "possibly overly sweet on this occasion, edging a bit towards the fig roll". She's right.

The remainder went very well with fruit cake and staffordshire cheese this evening.

winesecretary wrote: ↑09:49 Thu 06 Aug 2020 In bottle I'll leave it for 3-5 years before cracking another one.

Can this have been the same wine, merely 12 months later? Time is a cruel mistress.

@ djewesbury - indeed! I opened the second to confirm my view of the first from the year before and was then confounded. I remain of the view that in half it is fully ready, however.

djewesbury wrote: ↑19:50 Thu 24 Feb 2022

winesecretary wrote: ↑09:49 Thu 06 Aug 2020 In bottle I'll leave it for 3-5 years before cracking another one.

Can this have been the same wine, merely 12 months later? Time is a cruel mistress.

Look who’s back

idj123 wrote: ↑21:39 Fri 25 Feb 2022

djewesbury wrote: ↑19:50 Thu 24 Feb 2022

winesecretary wrote: ↑09:49 Thu 06 Aug 2020 In bottle I'll leave it for 3-5 years before cracking another one.

Can this have been the same wine, merely 12 months later? Time is a cruel mistress.

Look who’s back

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