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The May 2018 Distinguished Cellar Auction, Part III
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"The 2006 Les Cailles, which will come to surprise to no one who is familiar with the estate’s wines, is brilliant in this vintage. The bouquet is deep and beautiful, as it offers up notes of red and black cherries, blood orange, cocoa, great minerality, woodsmoke and vanillin oak. On the palate the wine is full-bodied, very pure and minerally, with great precision and depth, and a very long, tangy and ripely tannic finish. The tannins here are certainly substantial, but they are ripe and so buried in fruit that one might be tempted to drink this wine young, but for the snappy acidity that insists that gratification be deferred for at least a decade. A great wine in the making."
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"The 2006 Les Cailles, which will come to surprise to no one who is familiar with the estate’s wines, is brilliant in this vintage. The bouquet is deep and beautiful, as it offers up notes of red and black cherries, blood orange, cocoa, great minerality, woodsmoke and vanillin oak. On the palate the wine is full-bodied, very pure and minerally, with great precision and depth, and a very long, tangy and ripely tannic finish. The tannins here are certainly substantial, but they are ripe and so buried in fruit that one might be tempted to drink this wine young, but for the snappy acidity that insists that gratification be deferred for at least a decade. A great wine in the making."
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