So to Bottle #2 - I was worried that this one may have spoiled, as it suffered some serious cork leakage. It seems my fears were unfounded. If anything, Bottle 2 was even better than bottle 1. The colour was darker, showing an intense honeyed colour. The honey and toast flavours were also more intense. The beeswax and minerality of bottle 1 making way for ripe fig flavours, and some exquisitely complex (positive) oxidative ageing characteristics and the most insane length of finish - the complex flavours lingering for many minutes after finishing the wine. A stonkingly good wine. Superlatives fail me… Certainly the best $20 I've ever spent on a bottle of wine.
