A guest brought in this corkage bottle today, ‘96 Lafite Rothschild, her birth year wine. Notes of black currant, leather, tobacco with silky integrated tannins. I’m a new floor somm and I feel really lucky every day that I get to work here. On a seperate note, when I came back from my break today, I noticed that a server had decanted this himself. When I asked him about it he said, “well I didn’t want to bother you on your break!” He used a normal wine key, and I told him that on any bottle above 15yrs old, I would’ve used the durand, and that he was very lucky that the cork didn’t fall apart. So I said, “next time, PLEASE grab me, even if I’m on break!”