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A traditional American Cab, this wine has a superb depth of fruit with moderate organic acidity. It smells like blackberries that has a whiff of cedar and a dollop of earth. The power and equilibrium of the wine will permit it to age for the next decade, but it's ingesting very well now. Score: ninety fiveJean François de Troy's 1735 painting Le D