Malleolus follow-up

Opened this Saturday Nov 17, five days since opening on Nov 12 and it's still excellent. Nose now giving off the most exotic spices--cinnamon, wintergreen esp.--almost erasing the blackberry underneath, with violet overtones. On palate it's rounder but still plenty of acid and tannin. Maybe a tiny bit of volatile acidity but this has been open for five days with only a primitive (Ramon Bilbao souvenir) air pumper to preserve it. Advice: if you want to have a bottle of red wine that you can keep for several days, use a Spanish or Portuguese. As I've noted before, the latter tend actually to improve a day later and keep a few more; Spanish at least maintain their drinkability for several days too. This is a generalization of course but at home, seems to me most people or most couples don't really want to put away a whole bottle of wine in one sitting so useful to know that good Spanish and Portuguese wines will keep (in my experience, and for reasons I don't know) better than French, Italian or American.