I have had this wine many times and the note that follows is based on a bottle tasted in 2012: Quite complex and classically, even brilliantly, spicy on both the nose and the palate but the beginning of what is likely to be a graceful decline is in sight. While this is indeed still wonderfully tasty and lovely as the flavors display soy, hoisin and anise notes, the vibrancy this had in its youth has now passed and it has become a sweet older burg in character. I would suggest drinking this over the next 10 years. Consistent notes except for a bottle tasted in 2017 that was marred by a distinct lactic character on the nose and flavors that were excessively soupy; this bottle merited a rating of 87, which is to say drinkable but not distinguished.

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