With Hart, Liz, YZ, Sloke and T.
Wine from Liz.

Wine was gently decanted in a narrower decanter for about 2 hours.
This was in phiiiiime drinking window, and super seductive.

In the glass: deep dark garnet. High extraction. Light garnet around the rim showing its age.

On the nose: fresh off the decanter, a blanket of blueberries and vanilla cream. Milk chocolate. As the wine rested in the glass, this vanilla cream sunk to the background. Black cherries, plums, blueberries. Sweet. Aromatic and fleshy. Aromatic lift of oak, tobacco and cedar at the background slowly became more prominent but still in perfect balance. Earthiness. I assume this is a very high Merlot % wine.

On the palate: mid+ acidity, mid+ body, long finish, and fully resolved tannins. Palate coating. Lush.

What a delicious wine in the peak drinking window.
For folks like me who didn’t know the winemaker, it would’ve been super easy to make the mistake of dismissing the wine because of its classification as Right-Bank St Emilion premier GCC B, which is