Bought from a local shop in Portland to celebrate the life of a late loved one over a fantastic meal. Decanted 90 minutes prior to eating and it had opened the nose a bit with red berries - tart cherries, slightly less than ripe strawberry, and currant. Medium to pale ruby color. Medium tannins that refused to go away. After 2-2.5 hours it had a weird acidic period that drowned out the fruit. Once past that it was great - tannins died down, a very very small amount of tobacco and maybe licorice came through.

This was my first real foray into aged wines and overall it was…ok? I’m assuming past its prime, just didn’t have great depth or tertiary notes that I thought would develop with how lovely the tobacco notes in the 2018 vintage currently are.

$150 89pts?