Lunchtime. Top-notch wine — in the top quartile of DRC’s I’ve had. Basically delivers everything you’d want from a top-shelf V-R: nose of wild red fruit along with some cool blue fruit, baking spice, incense, and all that lifted perfumy magic; outrageously smooth and fully-resolved by this point with phenomenal balance and the revered ultra-dense lightness. Immensely enjoyable and every time you have an example like this it makes up (mostly) for all of the Burg heartache and disappointment (cf. the confected GdeV in the pic) along the way …