12 bottles per lot
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Châteauneuf-du-Pape, La Reine des Bois--Vintage 1998
Rhône, Domaine-bottled: Domaine de la Mordorée
Tasting note: This opaque purple-coloured effort was among the most backward wines in the tasting. Although subdued aromatically, it is enormously endowed, concentrated, and fabulous in the mouth. With high tannin as well as extraordinary blackberry and cassis fruit mixed with minerals and subtle new oak, it cuts a huge swathe across the palate, but is not heavy. Give it another 3-4 years of cellaring and drink it over the following three decades. It is a quasi-modern-styled Chateauneuf du Pape, but clearly has not lost its typicity.
Robert Parker. Wine Advocate Issue #138, Dec 2001.
12 bottles per lot
Rhône, Domaine-bottled: Domaine de la Mordorée
Tasting note: This opaque purple-coloured effort was among the most backward wines in the tasting. Although subdued aromatically, it is enormously endowed, concentrated, and fabulous in the mouth. With high tannin as well as extraordinary blackberry and cassis fruit mixed with minerals and subtle new oak, it cuts a huge swathe across the palate, but is not heavy. Give it another 3-4 years of cellaring and drink it over the following three decades. It is a quasi-modern-styled Chateauneuf du Pape, but clearly has not lost its typicity.
Robert Parker. Wine Advocate Issue #138, Dec 2001.
12 bottles per lot
Special notice
Offered duty paid, but available in bond. VAT at 17.5% will be charged on the hammer price on removal of the lot from bond.