2003 Les Hauts de Pontet-Canet

[hotwine]

For our anniversary dinner last night, to accompany NY strips, baked spuds & sausage prepared over an oak fire, with steamed brocolli. (Grilled the steaks over the coals and cooked the sausage & spuds indirectly in the smoking chamber.) Decanted the wine for four hours. Perfecto! Very nice bright fruit, delectable complexity on the palate, excellent finish. Trick-or-treaters even waited until we had finished dinner before demanding tribute. And the Spurs won. Nice evening.