After dinner dessert wine and Cab we had with steak dinner we shared with my Mom who my wife and I had been making sure she is eating well as sister who lives on her property had knee replacement and is staying with her daughter. Both were excellent. Closing Bell (
link to 2020 version), from the warmest part of Monterey County, was very hard to open. Scheid exclusively uses screw-top closures on their wines, but not on Closing Bell that combines two Portuguese grapes with Tempranillo. The corked top had been dipped in wax and side of cork also had gotten attached to the bottle. I got through the cork with corkscrews, but it wasn't coming out, so I poured it through screened aerator into a glass. After cleaning bottle with a brush, I poured the half-bottle we did not drink last night back into it.
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