Château Pontet-Canet English-bottled

Avery Family Cellar Wine Dinner - The Worst Wine Dinner of my life (The Grill Room at Rosewood DC) : The last bottle was flirting with perfection. Another oxidized bottle.

Avery Family Cellar Inaugural Wine Dinner - Really old wines (Eddie V's - Tysons Corner, VA) : Perfectly harmonious hedonistic nose displaying decadent red fruit, raspberry, plum, a hint of cassis, caramel, rose, cedar, leather, sous bois, sesame and truffle. Perfectly harmonious palate, layers up layers of exquisite red fruit, incredibly polished and silky, and a seamless finish that resonates. The precise reason why some of us are so obsessed with the old clarets.