Did John Szabo have a bad bottle? I'm much closer to David Lawrason on this one.

Still fresh, but smooth and powerful. Cassis flavours. Dense and inky, and lots of sediment.

Tasted April 2015

Both my bottles had gone bad, looks like faulty corks. Weird for the country which harvests half the world's cork.

I first opened the bottle and on the nose immediately knew it was unclean. I took a brief swish in my mouth and less spat it out than spewed it out violently. It was completely acidic. There has been a bacterial bloom of some kind - acetobacter, if I had to guess - that made that bottle completely undrinkable.