![]() ![]() Sitting here, writing this, I realise that there will be no wine with dinner tonight. Every chance it will have company before long. At the moment, that is reserved for the 1986. Points? 99, but I feel really cheap not going the next step. One of the great Graveyards and to be honest, I’m not sure that they can make a better wine. ![]() It needs at least a decade but is so gorgeous now, how does one resist? Focused, with great length and the intensity maintained throughout, beautiful tannins, knife-edge balance. Chocolate, dark berries, warm earth, and more – the flavours just keep coming. ![]() Ripe and plush, with that vintage’s trademark finesse and tannin management. Winelovers are not stupid and even at $350 a bottle (peanuts when compared to the great First Growths and Grand Cru Burgundies, with which it sits comfortably), they were not going to leave this sitting around for long. The only bad news? You will have the devil of a time finding a bottle. This is the vinous equivalent of Steve Smith holding firm to win the Ashes in England of Springsteen and the E Street Band at their best of Sir Anthony Hopkins doing ‘Kear Lear’. For me, the question is can it, or perhaps will it, match the 1986 Graveyard? Only time will reveal that, but to even consider a wine in the ballpark of that legend (for me, perhaps the greatest Hunter red since the Lindeman’s twins of 1965) gives you some idea of where this sits. ![]()
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