This premium Chilean is an opaque garnet hue with a mature looking rim. Chocolate emerges on opening even as I am pouring my first taste. There are loads of pure fruit.

In the mouth that wine is fully mature, integrated with lovely texture yet a tad thin but that is right on opening–the finish lingers.

After breathing the wine for several hours waiting for (NW) to reach, the bouquet opens up to a complex world of chocolate, leather, wood, light cedar, cigar box; a premium bouquet to be certain.
Raspberry and delicious dark fruit all by with smoke on the rear palate and some charcoal. I swear the color changed from a mature looking hue to a younger red with a touch of purple still. weird–and wonderful.

Now the story behind that wine:

Three or four years ago (NW) and I were together for Thanksgiving at his digs in

Jacksonville. He opened a 2000 Don Melchor among an array of other wines we had that glorious holiday weekend. (17 different wines we had that weekend I believe)

The wine was so rare it was hard to figure out; It was so huge and so “out there” that you couldn’t really figure out what to serve it with and what it was all about. We attributed all of that to it’s immaturity.

Now after cellaring that wine for several years, it is a totally different wine as described above. I made a turkey dinner with all the trimmings just like at Thanksgiving and it was an excellent pairing. I paid $35 for that wine about 5 years ago and the patient waiting paid off.
Raise a glass to Good Cab and Turkey!

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