If memory serves this was one of the last two bottles from the much missed caviste, Les Caves de Marais which was a favourite stop on the number 96 Paris bus route. The most recent visit in 2019 found the shutters permanently closed on an empty shop. It would have been good to have one last chat with Jean Jacques. His English impeccable compared to my deficient French. One last recommendation from the eminence gris; as usual his choices open cleanly, scents of dark roast coffee over smoke and brown spices, smatter of green herb, then a deep raspberry and into blackberry swirl of fruit. Finishes with what gentlemen from the last century’s wine trade would call breeding. I’d say firm but soft cocoa tannins and well bound acidity. St Joseph, Jesus, this is good.
13.5% alcohol I think. Cork. Was about €30?
93 points.
Cognitive Bottle Therapy 
For anyone needed a quick fix, there is an abandoned 96 bus in Edge of Tomorrow, currently streaming on Netflix, in the scene where Major William Cage is entering the pyramid at the Louvre to kill the alpha mimic.
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One day we’ll be able to go bottle hunting by bus again.
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