2 bottles per lot
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Le Pin--Vintage 1996
Pomerol
Offered in a carton. Slightly damp-affected labels. Levels into neck
Tasting Note: Only one-third of the harvest made it into the 1996 Le Pin, so this vintage will be even more impossible to find than usual. The wine exhibits an even denser, more saturated ruby/purple color than the 1995, as well as an exotic, unformed but flamboyant vanillin, pain grille, smoke, and jammy black cherry-scented nose. Ripe, dense, and atypically fleshy for a 1996 Pomerol, this is a sexy, medium-bodied, concentrated wine that should firm up before bottling and age nicely. Anticipated maturity: 2000-2015. Robert Parker, Wine Advocate #115 (Feb 1998)
2 bottles per lot
Pomerol
Offered in a carton. Slightly damp-affected labels. Levels into neck
Tasting Note: Only one-third of the harvest made it into the 1996 Le Pin, so this vintage will be even more impossible to find than usual. The wine exhibits an even denser, more saturated ruby/purple color than the 1995, as well as an exotic, unformed but flamboyant vanillin, pain grille, smoke, and jammy black cherry-scented nose. Ripe, dense, and atypically fleshy for a 1996 Pomerol, this is a sexy, medium-bodied, concentrated wine that should firm up before bottling and age nicely. Anticipated maturity: 2000-2015. Robert Parker, Wine Advocate #115 (Feb 1998)
2 bottles per lot