8 bottles per lot
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Château Certan de May--Vintage 1982
Pomerol
Levels: three bottom neck and five top shoulder; glue stained labels
"Every time I have this wine in tastings outside my cellar, I have guessed it to be Pétrus and I have rated it as one of the greatest 1982s. My scores have ranged from 96-100. From my cellar, the wine has always tasted super-concentrated, impressive, and frightfully backward, and not nearly as flattering and open. This tasting note is based on a wine from my cellar - a cold, damp storage facility. The wine reveals no signs of age in its color, which remains an opaque, thick- looking ruby/purple. The nose offers up reticent aromas of super-ripe black fruits (jammy cherries), combined with earthy, truffle, cedar, and chocolate notes. Full-bodied and super-concentrated, with high levels of extract, glycerin, and tannin, this remains an outrageously rich and compelling Pomerol that I find needs another 5 years until it begins to enter its plateau of maturity. It will easily last through the first three decades of the next century . It is a majestic Certan de May, as well as the finest young vintage of this wine I have tasted, but it is evolving at a glacial pace. Tasted 16 times since bottling, in 375 ml, 750 ml, and magnum formats with consistently brilliant notes." Robert Parker, Wine Advocate #102 (December 1995)
8 bottles per lot
Pomerol
Levels: three bottom neck and five top shoulder; glue stained labels
"Every time I have this wine in tastings outside my cellar, I have guessed it to be Pétrus and I have rated it as one of the greatest 1982s. My scores have ranged from 96-100. From my cellar, the wine has always tasted super-concentrated, impressive, and frightfully backward, and not nearly as flattering and open. This tasting note is based on a wine from my cellar - a cold, damp storage facility. The wine reveals no signs of age in its color, which remains an opaque, thick- looking ruby/purple. The nose offers up reticent aromas of super-ripe black fruits (jammy cherries), combined with earthy, truffle, cedar, and chocolate notes. Full-bodied and super-concentrated, with high levels of extract, glycerin, and tannin, this remains an outrageously rich and compelling Pomerol that I find needs another 5 years until it begins to enter its plateau of maturity. It will easily last through the first three decades of the next century . It is a majestic Certan de May, as well as the finest young vintage of this wine I have tasted, but it is evolving at a glacial pace. Tasted 16 times since bottling, in 375 ml, 750 ml, and magnum formats with consistently brilliant notes." Robert Parker, Wine Advocate #102 (December 1995)
8 bottles per lot