1996 Taylor Vargellas

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From half bottle

3 hour decant

80% opaque, paling rim

Still curiously mute on the palate, as this particular wine tends to be. Some hints of dry red fruits.

On front palate a welcome lush sweetness, maraschino cherries, with almond- topped cherry crumble, but it dries out mid palate and becomes goji berries and 85% lindt. Some nice dry (almost Dow-dry) fruit and extract on the finish.

Good wine.

In half, this might now actually be ready. But there is no hurry.