Super Bowl LVIII 2024 (Alpharetta, GA): Tasted double blind: In comparison to the '82 Lynch, this was a bigger, fatter, juicier, younger wine. This had an incredibly sexy nose with a strong vein of iron on the finish. It was so fresh, powerful, and youthful that I was blown away when it was revealed as the '82 Pichon Lalande (my wine). I called it 1990 Montrose. Of all the times I've had the privilege of drinking this wine, this was the youngest most well preserved bottle of '82 PLC that I've ever had.
For myself, the wine of the vintage from one of the greatest Bordeaux vintages of all time, and it kicks the first growths out of the park. This is the first time I've had the chance to enjoy this by myself, and really focus on the wine. From nose to tail this is faultless. The nose is perfection with old leather, blackcurrant, plum and cedar with violet and orange hints. The palate is seamless and multilayered with perfect balance, and the finish pushes past 90 seconds, and somehow manages to carry robust tannin to the very end without any residual bitterness. Without doubt, my greatest wine I've ever drank, and my deathbed choice. If it was possible 100+
Colour is bricking but still plenty of dark garnet. Nose is subtle and classic Paulliac. But then the warmth and richness rather than the more austere nature of most Paulliac comes into play. Definitely one for those who find great St Julien more to their taste. Hard to say what could be better about this wine.
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More mature than my last bottle but awesome flavors of coffee, sweet dark fruit, weedy tobacco and earth. Smooth and open in the mouth but without the glossy texture I recall. Still a wine in its prime.
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Light ruby with orange rust on the rim. Absolutely gorgeous nose of potpourri, musk, tonka bean and forest floor. On the palate it's incredibly fresh. Beautiful red and black fruit! What? At this age? So polished and refined. And the finish lasts well over a minute. Might be the finest bottle of wine I've ever had.
Opened an hour beforehand, but used the lone decanter on hand for the 1990. Exceptionally mouth-coating. Very long finish. Marvellous. Excellent pairing with the standing rib roast with ‘au jus’…
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Drank at Christmas dinner in Wyoming.Enjoyed by all.
Color: dark ruby or garnet, slightly brick-y-er than the 90 we tasted alongside. Nose: blackberries and saddle leather. Palate: mellow, a little orange peel, leather, dark fruits… dad says “exceptional mouth coating, long finish”
Overall, we thought this was spectacular, and far more open/accessible/demonstrative than the 90 we drank alongside it.
Thanks @m.batard!
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Special occasion of 40th Birthday for nephew, what a treat! Ruby color with brown fringe, soft tannins, leathery nose, dark fruit flavor, lingered on palate.
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12.5% ABV. Medium garnet appearance but still retaining a nice ruby core - color holding strong at 41 years old. Double decanted with quick air contact just to get rid of the sediment. Thanked the heavens that this was a sound bottle. This really started to find its legs about an hour in.
Attack of cassis, blackberry, pyrazine character of blackcurrant leaf/green bell pepper (which I don’t love), cigar humidor, toasted cedar, anise, bitter chocolate, graphite, dried mushroom, and wet moss. Tannins are beautifully integrated. Acidity is vibrant. Medium density with with a soft, supple texture.
I’ve never crossed paths with the ‘82 Pichon Lalande until today and boy was I missing it out on the party. The purity and amount of primary fruit that this is still displaying is staggering. This has layers, depth, and concentration of flavor in spades with a relentless finish. I don’t know how much longer well-kept ‘82s have left at this level, but I’d say ride the dragon while you still can. I’m dumbfounded by how good this is. An absolutely mind-bending drinking experience.
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Spectacular proof that the best bottles of 1982 Pichon Lalande are not only surviving but absolutely thrilling, fresh and lively. This bottle was purchased from Premier Cru almost 20 years ago. Beautiful deep ruby, no orange or brown. Ravishing bouquet of bright black cherry, raspberry and cassis. Concentrated, so fruity it almost seems like a new release but with the roundness and complexity of age. Silky. Excellent acidity and finish. A perfect St. Julien - but wait, it's Pauillac. A revelation.
Clear ruby, barely any bricking. Pencil lead, earth, dark fruit, cigar, cedar, clay and leather on the nose. Full body, integrated tannins, very long finish. The nose is killer on that wine. It is excellent on the palate, but I feel it's at peak. I have a few left so time will tell.
Opened to celebrate the summer solstice. My first ’82 Bordeaux of real import. Supposed to be an amazing wine: #9 on Spurrier’s 100 Wines to Try Before You Die. Honestly, I would have been ok going through life without drinking this (especially at its current price).
It looked perfect with a fill into the base of neck. Cork was in reasonable shape and easily came out in one piece. The first bit went straight into a glass, and the rest of the bottle went into a narrow necked decanter. Color showed some fading, but nothing unexpected.
The nose was shy. It had all the classic dark fruits of black cherry, blackberry, even some mulberries, that were still reasonably fresh. Plenty of tobacco, wood shavings, graphite, and leather as well that smell like classic Bordeaux. There is a distinct green bell pepper note as well that I assume is the Cab Franc inclusion. It’s all there, but without being particularly compelling and overall a bit thin. Not much in the way of complexity that makes me want to keep smelling.
Thin on the palate. Acidity is quite high, a bit too high for my taste, tannins are very fine and barely present. No remaining evidence of oak. The flavors demonstrate nice fruit, mostly cherries and blackberries. Lots of tertiary leather and graphite as well. Finish is medium in length. Overall complexity is medium, to medium minus. Like the nose, the whole thing is just rather faded. It’s like looking at a beautiful painting through a dirty window; the elements are all there but the vibrancy, immediacy, and appeal are mostly missing.
What a bummer. I’ve heard this wine can be spectacular and I was very much looking forward to it. For me, even though I got a great price, this is really stretching my budget. My expectations were through the roof. And while the wine is good, the overall experience is a bit of a flop. I don’t assign wine scores, but if I did, this would be somewhere in the mid to high 80s. I sourced it carefully, and all signs pointed to this being a good bottle, but this is all part of the game when buying 40 yr old wines. No great old wines, just great bottles and all that. Oh well…
PnP. Cork pulled out perfectly in one piece, no sign of seepage, pretty much in perfect condition, the case was sourced from a great British cellar a couple of years ago. Had a small glass before heading out to dinner. Clean and expressive nose, flowers and tobaccos. Somewhat tannic throughout 2 hours dinner, continued in upswing but never reached the peak. Ripe fruits with excellent acidity. Finished with pencil shavings and tobaccos. This bottle was showing incredibly young for a 41 years old wine, this still has a long way to go. 95-97 pts
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20 Mature Magnums (mostly Bdx, w/ Unico, Vogue Musigny, Marthas): From magnum. Three 1982s side-by-side. Really bad luck in this flight with two corked/incorrect bottles (Ausone & Cheval Blanc). The only great wine was the Pichon Lalande (96+pts) which delivers every time all that Pauillac magic with tobacco and truffles and from magnum comes with that seductive burnt sugar/toffee note, which is to die for.
TN: Superb nose full of dark fruit, coffee, burnt sugar, minerality, tobacco. So precise and inviting. On the palate fresh red fruit, dark fruit, coffee, burnt sugar, minerality, tobacco, classic Paulliac and with that seductiveness that is captivating. Melted tannins, good freshness and an good balance. Probably not the most impressive, expressive bottle of this but still fantastic at 96+pts.
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Still a beautiful wine but not possessing the same energy and layers as prior bottles. It came after a 76 Heitz MV which I slightly preferred. This was my last 750ml, which I think was great timing, as it appears to be gently on the downslope (still drinking near peak in larger formats ). If you have it enjoy it now
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Some Bordeaux (Chicago, IL): Nowhere as good as a prior experience from magnum a few years back. The perfume on the nose is distinct and beautiful, with a core of drying fruit and a modest hint of pencil shavings. Somewhat light on the palate with silky tannins. Fully resolved at this point, I'd be inclined to drink this (at least in fifth) sooner than later.
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Top Mid-Aged Bordeaux ("Chateau La Grange" - La Grange IL): In 1982 flight. True to itself in every way, this shows mature and fresh black fruits with green bell pepper which balances nicely with the ripe fruit and cassis. Nose more engaging than palate, but very good now. Doubt there is any further upside.
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Magnum Rarities Tasting in Zurich (Zunfthaus zur Waag, Zurich): From Magnum: Intense and polished. Fine tobacco notes support a ripe and concentrated cherry fruit. Also herbal aromatics, fresh and green in style. Fresh palate, but felt slightly off-balance. This is still great, but not quite on the level of the last bottle a couple of years ago (from 75cl).
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Annual Richter All-Magnum Extravaganza: Consistently my favourite 1982 Bordeaux. Very young, dark fruit, cassism, blackberries. It posesses this Napa-Sexyness. Just plain delicious!
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Took a flyer from my local retailer. Unfortunately, the cork was completed dried out. The wine was corked, but definitely tasted past its prime. The 82' PdB Paje we also enjoyed this evening outshined it.
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Initially a bit disjointed but then with air this came into beautiful harmony. Very smooth and balanced, with nice complexity. Compared to 1982 Pichon Baron that we drank side by side, I found the Lalande to be superior but others disagreed.
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Color, clear intense red with copperish ring. 1st nose, classic mature Bordeaux, oak, cedar and roasted vanilla. On the palate, big body with intense complex depth, smooth with all tannins resolved. Amazing wine. We were split between the 1999 and the 1982.
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Drank w Amanda and Bret last night in CO; in perfect shape; subtle opening and within fifteen minutes softer tannins emerged; hints of berry; long and subtle finish with nice viscosity.
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Another great bottle. Even the next day it drank extremely well. This wine goes from strength to strength and is still full on. Sumptuous ripe fruit. Great depth and incredibly long aftertaste. It doesn't get much better than this. At its very peak but holding on to it.
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Clear but dense dark ruby with a garnet rim. Perfect fill, mild sediment This wine was almost too perfect to be noticed. Rich yet resolved, lush, and perfect drinking with food.
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Wow! How can a wine this old be so fresh, tannic and powerful. Cigar box. I think some cab franc in it. Nice green pepper notes that aren’t offensive (usually is for me). But WOTN for me
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From magnum, this was virtually perfect. Fragrant, complex red and purple fruits, earth, and spices. Pixelated definition and a looong finish. In this format is at the height of its powers, as it kept growing in stature as it aired
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This served as the replacement for a 1978 Petras that was corked for our 2022 Christmas dinner at Westdale cooked by Simon and Lana ...rack of lamb...for just the 4 of us. This was the Christmas Eve was recovering slowly from her broken femur at the hip she suffered in Nov at Disney. Simon and Lana cooking was a wonderful helpful and much appreciated gift. This wine was perfect in color and structure. It tasted hard when opened so I suspected it would have a long life. Upon checking critics suggest to drink it between 2019 and 2075!!!! I wish! Despite the overall 1982s being considered very drinkable early this should be considered in a decade! Hopefully that hardness will be unlike many of the 1975s which never really lost that quality.
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This wine continues to drink beautifully. Concentrated fruit with notes of cassis, black raspberry, cedar with hint of spice and damp earth. It is perfectly balanced with a great mouthfeel and barely perceptible tannins. Paired with grilled dry aged ribeye steaks. A wonderful experience.
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A fabulous example of this wine, which is no sure bet at auction given how frequently so many of these have been traded. But there were no concerns about provenance here and the bottle lived up to the reputation of the 1982 Pichon Comtesse. A voluminous nose, a picture painted with a palette of classical Pauillac notes - redcurrant and blueberry, cedar, and graphite tinged with a subtle allspice character. The cool character and classic structure make this such a drinkable - gulpable - wine.
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Having tasted the full array of 1982 contenders, for myself this is undoubtedly the wine of one of the greatest vintages, and one of the legendary wines of all time. It has you hooked from start to finish with a wonderfully mature aromatic nose of blackcurrant, plum, and leather with hints of mint and cedar and the Cabernet Franc making its presence felt. On the palate the tannin is resolved and seamless with secondary and tertiary notes. The finish is out of this world with unbelievable depth, and it is still there at 90+ seconds, and I struggle to remember anything better. This just needs a splash decant to deal with sediment.
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Nose: This bottle started out with a big perfume of berries and herbs, and just evolved over the evening. Cherry, Plum, Blackberry and Cedar in layers that just give way to a kaleidoscopic nose at various points. Palate: Beautiful middle weighted palate with powdery soft tanins, dense dark fruit, coconut oak, mint and cassis. The broad reach is incredible. Finish: Still so penetrating and long with gorgeous fruit, oak and spice all in fine balance.
Another sexy, classy ride for this wine. I hope all bottles give this much pleasure as this wine crests 40-years.
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A star from start to finish. The first sip was delightful and it only improved over 3 1/2 hours. The nose had a bit of barnyard, but this blew off and floral scents of rose, apple blossom and lilac emerged. Round and red with cedar, camphor, a hint of mint and tobacco.
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This is one of those "WOW" wines that if the bottle has been well-stored, never ceases to amaze me. Texturally, it is refined hedonism in the glass. Concentrated, lush, balanced, fresh, and intense, one sip, and you are hooked! The finish owns the day. Clocking in at over 60 seconds, the seamless display of black and red currants, plums, spice, tobacco, herbs, and mint leaf with its silky tannins and sensuality is what great Bordeaux is all about. Drink from 2022-2037.
Popped and poured from bottle. Initial barnyard on opening, and within 10 minutes blossomed into raspberry, strawberry, leather and earth. In the glass at about the 20 minute mark, initial barnyard completely gone and developing a sweet richness. Flavors of leather, solid black fruits balanced acid and tannin. Amazing after all of these years. Paired with a 45 day dry aged porterhouse which made this wine shine even more. We enjoyed this bottle for about an hour and it just got better and better. Drink or hold.
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From a very good HDH auction bottle purchased last year with a bottom neck level. Lovely dark berry fragrance, light-medium weight and not especially concentrated or persistent. Nevertheless, quite elegant and lasts well in the glass. Very much in a deep secondary stage where the flamboyant fruit it displayed when young is no longer evident. Since there is not a lot of structure now, I think this wine was better a decade or so ago yet still a fine drink in a more subtle vein.
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More depth and flesh here and drinking quite youthfully as I expected more tertiary flavors. It will be very interesting to see where this wine goes in the future. I rated this 100-points on numerous occasions from 1989-2014 and still maintain it was a wine best drunk in its youth but we’ll see. 94+?
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From double mag, this is sensational. So young with classic PLL notes of bell pepper and sweet tobacco leaf. Rich, energetic fruit remains from this format with so much complexity in a refined package. Wow.
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A small glass from magnum (decanted for about an hour and a half) showed plenty of life and classic cassis with slightly herbaceous accents. There's only a hint of the florality which the 82 PCL can exhibit. But would this really have blossomed with more time?
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This is the only the second perfect red Bordeaux score I have given in 20+ years, and it took me 3 hours to get there. Recently I was lucky to purchase a full case at an exceptional price because of water damaged labels, but with otherwise perfect provenance. It is no problem as I only want to impress myself. I would recommend giving this at least an hour in an open decanter to allow its nuances to develop. From a visual point of view, it could be in a fine art gallery with perfect viscosity. The nose is elegantly understated, but it recognises its pedigree and is perfectly harmonious with ripe blackcurrant, plum, leather and hints of cedar, but with the Cabernet Franc very much in the mix. The palate reminds that you are drinking a Paulliac with firm tannin, but so perfectly balanced, it takes it to that perfect score. Likewise the finish is very old school with the tannin punching you in the face, but it is exquisitely balanced and with an unbelievable delicate finish which keeps creeping past 60 seconds.
What a treasure. Hour long decant and the room filled up with a wonderful bouquet. Lavender, forest floor, a bit of damp air. Such a treasure to be drinking this 40 year old gem. Drink to enjoy.
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The wine was Purchased some 10 year ago with 6 other bottles. It was one of my preferred wines and I still think the best 1982 with Latour ! , I open the wine, decanted it, and wait just 15/20 minutes, I think old wines may be decanted but you have to start to drink it quick so you know the complete transformation of the wine and you can witness it from the start !
It the nose there was no oxidation at all, but pure old cabernet franc, but also some cigar and cedar smell in bordeaux ! The pencil graphite is very pronounced in the beginning, but the wonder of this wine is the balance between mouth and nose , it is nearly perfection ! Waaaauw really , after 1 hour , the nose still didn’t lost it’s power , the wine is not so long anymore as it was , probably this bottle was better some 5/7 years ago going for 100, but what a bottle it still is ! In my top 5 of old bordeaux bottles , with mouton 1928, vieux certain 1948, petrus 1957, and Latour 1982 ! This is what wine is about ,
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This bottle was purchased on release. Completely saturated cork with a high shoulder fill. Decanted for about half an hour then enjoyed over the course of 2 to 3 hours without food in Zalto Bordeaux stems.
The wine was fabulous, nearing perfection. It opened with quite a lot of green pyrazines - so much that I wondered if there was some Cabernet Franc in the blend. This aspect seemed to relax over a couple of hours, yielding notes of coffee and cinnamon stick. There was also quite a lot of graphite pencil and scorched earth on the finish. The bouquet was marvelous and lingered in my memory both immediately and afterward.
The acidity was snappy and texturally the wine seemed fully resolved to me. I would’ve liked for a dash more weight of fruit. Part of me also suspects that other bottles might show more youthfully than this but make no mistake 1982 PLL is one of the all-time greats.
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82 Bordeaux Dinner @ Union Square Cafe all wines were purchased on release and double decanteted at 4:00.
Third Flight - Lynch Bages, Pichon Lalande, La Tour Haut Brion, Haut Brion
My TN in Jan 2021 still applied for both PL and HB. “The PL was a dark fruited, perfectly proportioned, luxuriously textured Pauillac, showing maturing complexity while retaining an energetic youthfulness of a far younger wine. The HB expressed the same remarkable vintage characteristics as well looking half it’s age with a bouquet filled with dark red fruits, intense cedar and tobacco, wet stone and herbal notes. A more elegant palate than the richer styled PL. Silky tannins, perfectly balanced, layer after layer of still youthful fruit, long haunting finish. This pair certainly confirms to me that well stored 1982s are far from over the hill and still show the magic of the vintage“
Pichon was the runner up in this flight.
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Opened in Courchevel. P&P but enjoyed over a few hours.
Absolutely stunning bottle - arguably the best 1982 I've had in the last few years. Not tired at all, with vibrant fruit coming through balanced by perfectly integrated tannins and minerality that gave the wine a beautiful refinement.
Completely destroyed the 1982 Lafite we had a few days before. This wine is at its peak and don't hesitate to enjoy it now!
Ce vin est légendaire, le sommet du domaine selon plusieurs et j'ai eu la chance d'en goûter une bouteille magique une fois. Celle-ci n’en est peut-être pas le parfait exemple, mais tout de même, ça reste tout un vin!
Toujours plaisant de voir un vin qui titre 12.5%.
Un nez classique de boite à cigare et de cèdre, avec un côté fumé. La bouche est d’une finesse exquise. Rien ne dépasse, les tanins sont soyeux et pas encore complètement fondus, de sorte que le vin garde une forme étonnante. Le fruit est encore sucré! La longueur est surprenante car on croit que le vin tombe, puis il trouve un second souffle. Je lui donnerais aisément 15-20 ans de moins. J'ai eu beau l'ouvrir plusieurs heures à l'avance, il évolua lentement mais sûrement vers davantage de plénitude et, comme c'est souvent le cas, les derniers verres furent les meilleurs. 94 pts au début, plutôt 96 pts à la fin. En moyenne, 95 pts.
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Tasted blind, this wine had a deep red/purple center with light red rims. The medium+ intensity nose featured plum, cherry, mocha, Provencal herb, roasted meat, and mineral notes, particularly in hours 2-3.
In the mouth, this wine was rich and ripe with great balance and texture. It had a "jelly-like edge" to it. The tannins were light and round and the length was excellent.
In hours 2-3 this wine was phenomenal. It was up in the 97-98 range. Interestingly, as it aired, it became a bit more monolithic and lost some points. I would not say it was going down hill as this clearly can last 20+ more years at this quality. However, it will say that this wine not only is variable bottle to bottle but also goes through phases. However, it is always some level of good.
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Stored in a cold cellar since release. Fill just below cork. Cork broke- a touch soft. Powerful bouquet of cedar, leather and black fruits. Opaque. Medium bodied, tannins fully resolved, superb length. Restrained power. Full of grace. This bottle says many years in hand but unlikely to improve.
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10th of 12, decanted 80 minutes, level into neck, travelled cork, a wow bottle and probably a point, fine creamy fruit, full arsenal of tertiary flavours, very persistent with fine lift, little upside now but good for 10+ years. VFI (19.5).
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From a nice looking bottle with a VHS fill, this wine had a deep red/purple center with orange rims. The medium+ intensity nose generated blackberry, plum, mocha, brown spice, and mineral notes.
In the mouth, this wine was very round and attractive at first. After about 3 hours, it developed the missing dimension of power. This was in the form of attractively rounded tannin and fine grained acidity that gave it a great mouthfeel.
While tasting great now, this will easily last for a decade. I suggest at least a 3 hour pre-tasting decant. Enjoy!
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It was the second Pichon Comtesse of 1982 I drank. This one surpassed the first in every way. Black fruit, leather and tobacco were evident. Looking forward to the third bottle. LEGENDARY.
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I gave this 100 pts when enjoyed 15 years ago and a 98 since then. Tasted blind last evening: a sweeter, plummy showing this time, still extraordinarily youthful, soft textured, EXCELLENT and very nice contrast to an ‘83 Margaux tasted alongside.
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Epic Bordeaux for an Epic Birthday!; 9/1/2021-9/12/2021 (Paris & Bordeaux): This is straight up one of the best wines ever produced I think. There was some debate in our group on whether the '89 trumped but to me it was not a contest. This wine is bright and fresh and fruit and cigar smoke and elegant and powerful all at the same time. It is just about perfection. A real treat to get to try.
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Unfortunately, this was not a successful bottle despite its base neck level (WineBid). Dark center, orange to brown rim, which is typical and correct for this wine at this age. Pinched nose, mildly pleasant. On the palate, too mean and rustic, the opposite of what ‘82 Pichon Lalande has been and should be. Drying out. I hope and believe this bottle is not representative.
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If you have a bottle or two, or more, and you have been waiting, there is no reason to hold off. Incredibly sensuous, silky, rich, long and deep, the wine is aromatic, fresh and complex, with a finish that does not want to quit. Popped and poured, no decanting is needed here.
45th Bday 1934-1999. When Diamond Creek is weakest of the night (Zoom): Gorgeous perfume. I don’t know what it is with me and this wine. I cannot recall a more complex wine than this. Others described the Mouton as detailed but I thought this had it in spades. To me this is the perfect Bordeaux. A cornucopia of spices, red and dark fruits, leather, chocolate covered blueberries. The palate is just as complex as the nose and tasty. There is more of an acidic bite than the mouton but the finish is well over a minute. 97+
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YPO forum (Joe's): Second opportunity to enjoy this wine in the last two weeks, and this time I really slowed down to savor it. Both bottles featured perhaps the best nose in my wine drinking experience - so great that I kept sniffing without drinking to prolong the magic. The taste matched the perfect smell. It was like drinking the purest/cleanest mushrooms, with some violet, graphite, and forest floor for depth and complexity. After two extraordinary bottles in close succession, this cements itself as an all-time great for me.
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Another wonderful experience with the 82 Lalande. This bottle (an Ex-Chateau 2019 purchase) was not on par with the last bottle some months ago as it was much tighter with less fruit expression but especially much less tertiary aromas. Don’t get me wrong, this was again a stunning wine and easily eclipsed the Margaux 94 with had in the next glass, but it’s not up there with the best bottles. The intensity and precision are off-the charts, the wine burst of tension and vivacity and will certainly have a long life. A truly wonderful expression of Pauillac.
TN: Intense, deep aromas of leather, undergrowth, hints of barnyard, lots of minerality and dark fruit on the nose. Very precise and inviting, less expressive than the best bottles. Same aromas on the palate with lots of cassis, more minerality at the centre with tertiary aromas on the side. Very intense and precise this felt much younger than it is. The texture is creamy and the wine is full-bodied with no excess weight. The tannin structure is firm but with ultra-fine tannins (less mellowed than truly mature examples) with a high and perfectly integrated acidity. The finish has a good length and is full of dark berries and minerality.
Decanting: It was tight from the start and didn’t move much after hours of decanting and following the wine in the glass. It would have probably been better on day two but the bottle was empty at the end of the night.
Glass: Zalto Bordeaux
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From a pristine bottle, and poured to ruby color. Lively and deep with notes of plums, prunes, cigar, and earth. Retains a sweet core of fruit and very nice balance, though compared to past experiences it didn’t have that sparkle/energy which would send it to a higher score...I had it from magnum a couple years back and it did. Still a great bottle, but I’d be drinking 750s
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Beautiful wine, holds up to any of the very best mature Bordeaux I've had the pleasure of tasting. Ripe, round, fully mature but drinking at peak with no signs of fading. So good!
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Ex-Chateau bottle, rekorked in 2015. Decanted ~45 min. Improved in the decanter and was very good over 2,5 hours. I think this was not as good as other bottles. Nevertheless a very good wine and still something special. 94 pts.
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Nose on sour cherry, leather, a hint of cedar and cigar box. Very elegant.
The mouth reminded me of an old Chambolle. It's all lace. Delicacy is also the key word. The touch is silky, sweet. The wine is wildly sensual and feminine. Juice is fine but stretches to infinity in a feeling of harmony and fullness with a beautiful diaphanous frame. Beautiful, delicate finish on dried flowers with a delicate yet delicate length.
This wine gave me the feeling of a beautiful woman dancing behind a veil. Excellent certainly, but I expected more I must say when I see the reputation of PCL82. It lacks a little depth and a zest of substance to make the whole take off towards the summits. Given the condition of the cork, I do not exclude that it has altered the quality of the juice.
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Ex-Chateau bottle, rekorked in 2015. The bottle seemed perfect (label, kork and level into neck) but it had a slightly oxidative taste. What a shame! It was very good for a flawed wine but a rating would not be fair. I hope the next one is as good as the bottle looks. Fingers crossed.
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Dear friends, I dont know who the optimist is that makes the drinking window show as a wine to drink until 2075, way after my passing, but please don't follow that advice. This wine is heavenly, and for sure in the stage of "a great bottle", rather than a guaranteed one. My recommendation is to enjoy is now it is still regal. This will be going down step by step from here.
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The last two bottles of 82 PCL, both in good condition from different sources, really haven't shown very well. No cork taint or clear heat exposure, but a demure pencil, loam, currant nose that doesn't possess a great deal of volume or clarity. Followed over 24 hours, what *should* be present in 82 PCL never really emerges. Perhaps it's nothing more than bottle variation, perhaps it's the fact that so many of these RP 100 point wines have been traded a dozen times before consumption - I just hope that these bottles aren't indicative of the 82 PCL shifting out of its prime drinking window.
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World Series Mondo Wine Event (Duluth, GA): Tasted blind. This was up against an incredible roster of wines, but it destroyed all of them and was the clear WOTN winner. It is an absolute treat to taste this wine again. From beginning to end, it is as close to perfection as one can get. This still ranks in my top 10 of best wines of all time that I have tasted.
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Fine Wines SG - Grand Cru Discovery Pack (Delivered to Home): Medium garnet, viscous with heavy extraction, significant browning fading edges. Strong aromas of ripe blackberry, cassis, green leafy fern, angelica, ginseng, cigar box, pencil shavings. Rounded tannins, medium bodied, but intense fruit flavours of medium ripe cherry, blackberry, cloves, black pepper, savoury meats and leading to a back of somewhat riper fruits, purple flowers, cigar smoke and graphite. And the finish, a minute long of refined cedar wood smokes and ripe black fruits. Classic, and nearly as good as wine can ever get
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Ex-Chateau 2019 bottle, perfect condition, fill into neck+. This was an absolute stunner and almost perfect with just a hint of je ne sais quoi missing for a three digit score. Incredible intensity, superb definition, great balance of fruit and tertiary aromas, fresh and soft structure, seductive and elegant, with good tension. My feeling is that this wine in this form is at its peak but it is far away from declining. Still, this is one to enjoy over the next couple of years. 99 to 100 points.
TN: Black truffles, leather, tobacco, mushrooms, black fruit with black currant, blueberries on the nose. Same rainbow of aromas on the palate with a nice mineral backbone, some cedar and herbs completing the picture. Expressive, intense, perfectly delineated all embedded in a super soft structure with super soft tannins, a good acidity which is perfectly integrated, lots of tension and very good length. So much depth and so harmonious and elegant. Wow.
Decanting: Good from the go, didn’t need any decanting but became more expressive with some air. Hence a short decant should do the job.
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Taken to a country restaurant for our wedding anniversary. Open and expressive at the start. Nose of leather, game meat, underbrush. Focused, complex palate of cherry, morelo cherry, brown sugar, sandalwood, pencil lead. Graphite. Classic Pauillac. Long creamy finish. By the last glass the wine was a little muted (darker fruit and spice with a shorter finish). Supremely balanced and elegant. Not the most powerful nor complex wine I’ve ever drank but oozes class and a fitting way to celebrate. Reminds me of Pichon Baron ‘90 with a touch more class (see my notes). 96-97
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Aged Bordeaux Gems (with Unico/Heitz MV in the mix): Magnum. Tasted double blind. This was the third wine in this double blind flight with the Lynch and Mouton 82s. By then and latest after a sip of this elixir it was clear that we’re talking about Pauillac and the 82 vintage. My guess was that this was the Mouton 82 (which was a weak bottle and hence the weakest in the series). This Pichon was clearly the best wine of the whole tasting and confirmed my impression from other bottles of this wine I’ve had in the past: this is definitely one of the very best 82s. It has everything, elegance and sophistication, sexiness, complexity, precision, length – the complete package. It was a privilege to taste it from magnum to see how this wine must have been when it was younger. 98 points, easily.
TN: Expressive nose displaying cassis, dark cherries, burnt sugar, herbs and graphite. Intense, precise, sexy and elegant. Same profile on the palate. Masculine, yet sweet. Layered and focused. Wonderful structure with lots of very fine tannins, a perfectly integrated acidity and the right balance between creamy and fresh. Long finish of dark fruit and herbs.
Decanting: Double decanted only. Good from the get-go.
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Mind. Blowing. Goosebumps-type of intensity and incredible depth. A fistful of mushroom, truffle and forest floor right up your nose - with an uppercut. Underneath, dark yet fresh fruit, sweet spices. Some fresh herbs too. On the palate weightless with tannin molten away, still with tension and great structure. This is an easily a 101 score nose. I've been looking for reasons on the palate why this wouldn't be 100 points overall, but had to give up. Had the 82 from magnum recently which was fantastic too, but came across much younger showing less of these beautiful aging aromatics.
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Oh, what a wonderful experience this wine offered. Sadly, the oldest bottle in my cellar left standing after decades of collecting. At some point, you reach an age when you say to yourself, will I be around to open this bottle 30 or 40 years from now. As life unfolds, my drinking window narrows. So be it.
Such a beautiful nose on this wine. The color showed its age but not so much that one couldn't imagine what this Pichon was like in its first five to ten years after bottling. Cedar, leather and cherry in the mouth. A finish remarkable for its length and suppleness.
I may buy a case of the 2015 just to give me one more reason to live until age 100. Beautiful!
Magnum rarities tasting (Near Basel): This was part of a rarity old wine tasting hosted by a merchant and collector. All (almost) bottles were from magnum and double-decanted. The line-ups was dominated by aged Bordeaux, but also included two vintages of Unico and one from Martha's Vineyard. The undisputed winners were Pichon Lalande 82 and Lynch Bages 82. The most memorable, however, was the Pontet Canet 29 and St Croix Dumonts 21. The Unico (60, 65) were underwhelming as was – once again for me – Mouton 82.
Tasting note: Tasted blind, double decanted, magnum. Beautifully roasted coffee beans, mineral notes coupled with ripe, intense dark cherry and blueberry fruit, mint, menthol and other herbal notes. Soft yet powerful and muscular palate, fresh and fruity and managing to square the circle of tension and power with delineation and elegance all whilst exhibiting laser sharp precision. The winner of this tasting, easily beating Mouton 82.
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Wonderful Nose. Intense and complex. Very focused notes of mushrooms, roses, olives, cedar with ripe to becoming dried fruit- some fresh and some dried notes, reveling it’s current state in evolution. Still fairly bright and lively on the palate for 38 years old. Smooth and delicious. The wine just seems to evenly melt away into a long finish.
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Blind, obvious evolution omnipresent with the brick rim, peppers, mushrooms, forest floor, sweet complex and exceptionally long, has that aged Bordeaux perfume which I love. Preferably to drink before the next decade.
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To the Bordeaux gods: thank you. Last three bottles left from case. Silky & incredible length. Beautiful notes: berry& chocolate. May I repeat again, wow length!
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After a marvelous bottle last year (scored 99), I had high hopes for another bottle from the same batch. Although it didn’t reach the same level it was still great. This wine is close to its peak with the most beautiful left bank aromatics with a potpourri of dark berries and tertiary aromas embedded in a soft structure and with great length. In the best moments it had intensity, depth and tension and was at 97/98 points. Overall, this bottle had a tad less precision and harmony and showed not consistent over a few hours – at first it was too young and wild and after three hours the structure softened but the aromatics where less impressive. But it’s splitting hairs… easily a 96+ point experience just a tad short of the exceptional category.
TN: Medium+ expressive nose with a medium+ intensity and precision. Wonderful cassis fruit, black- and blueberries mixed with lots of tobacco and with time more truffles, mushrooms and forest floor. Same aromas along more herbal notes, iodine, dark red fruit, leather and animal notes on the palate. More expressive than on the nose, good intensity and tension, medium+ precision, medium+ length. The tannins are ripe and fine but the wine needed air to soften and seemed too young at first. The acidity is pronounced and only with time got better integrated. Overall not as harmonious and perfect as the last bottle but still great.
Decanting: This bottle needed a good 90 minutes in the decanter to fully open up (same as the last bottle). But every bottle will be different at this stage.
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From a bottle with a high shoulder fill, this wine had a very deep red center and oranging rims. It looks much the way it did 10 years ago. The medium+ intensity nose offers up forest floor, blackberry, and a hint of menthol at first. After a few hours in a decanter it refocused on mocha, blackberries, black spices, and figs.
In the mouth, this was gorgeously refined at first but lacked a bit of power. As it aired, it grew a stronger and stronger spine but never lost its elegance. It became even better balanced.
Like many great wines, this bottle went through a lot of phases. Don't hesitate to give it a lot of air. You will be glad you did. While I have confidence that this wine will last for a decade+, there was a high-toned element to this bottle that could throw off the delicate balance of this wine if it becomes more dominant. Thus, I would be inclined to start drinking my stash of this to obtain more data points.
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First of many wines I tasted during the Spring 2020 lockdown in Zürich. Strong mushroom on the nose. Very nice tertiary aromas. Great tension and red fruit. Filigrane tannins and structure. More and more molten red fruit (strawberry) over time. Later I started tasting burnt sugar.
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An almost 39 year old wine to celebrate our 39th wedding anniversary. A classic and world class wine for a classic and world class wife as we celebrated at home because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Your loss Thomas Keller as we had to cancel our evening at The Tak Room in NYC. I drank this wine twenty years ago when she (the wine) was just 18. Today, after decanting for forty five minutes, we savored again the endless stream of the four "c's" - currant, cassis, coffee and cedar. This merlot laden forest floor beauty gives credence to laying down your wines. As a result of the merlot and not the laying down, the amber color is deceptive, as you might think this wine is fading. Wrong. Complex, concentrated, the herbs and spices coat your mouth and linger lovingly with a hint of another "c", chocolate. Not much more to say, if you have a bottle, glory with her on a special occasion and fine dinner or save her for a special evening during the next ten to fifteen years.
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I have drank at least a dozen of this gem in my life, and even in blind tasting it was much better than most first growth, I ranked it just behind Petrus 82 and Latour 82, ahead of Mouton 82 🙂 The fruits was powerful, but certainly not overpowering, it had this feminine side that just “overpowered” the more powerful wines, like l’Evangile 82 that I just reported.
more tasting note in finewines.com.sg
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The weakest showing for an 82 Pichon Comtesse yet, we followed this bottle for about 2 hours (in the glass) after uncorking. As usual, I liked the cassis and pencil composition, but it didn't hit the highs that 82 PCL usually does.
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This too, along with the Cheval Blanc, is beginning to show signs of advanced age, but this is quite a bit more lively than the Cheval. Fruit still good, finish long, but its not the same wine as the last bottle was, or the other 22 from my stash. One bottle left, and hope it shows well.
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This remains a ridiculously attractive wine. It envelopes your taste buds like a cloak, smothers you with love, thick rich ripe fruit, produce of an incredibly rich summer. Its there to please and please. What a wonderful wine this is. Its past its peak, as youth is fading but its still today nothing short of amazing.
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If you have the disposable income or are lucky enough to have friends sitting on a bottle or two of this elixir, pop a cork. This is what mature Bordeaux at its best is all about. Elegant sensuous, balanced, complex, refined, regal, full, rich and deep, the fruit keeps on coming, building, expanding and pushing you to take another sip. But take your time as wine does not get much better than this.
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Bordeaux 1982: not quite 40 years on (Chez Konstantina): Paired with the 1st growth of Château Margaux, this wine gave it more than just a good run. Such intensity of aromas, such depth and elegance on the palate, such length. I have enjoyed this wine before, luckily, and was expecting something special and last evening did not disappoint. The sheer pleasing complexity of oranges, Clafoutis baked cherry, Cuban cigar, hints of leather and floral aspects just kept leaping out of the glass and purring on the palate. Superb! Interestingly enough, prices for this wine are matching prices for the 1982 Margaux, tasted alongside, with a wonderful d'affinois cheese aux truffes ...
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With Les & Mike. last of 6 bottles i bought in 1985 for $19. Still had some life left. Parker rated this 100. Had a bottle in 2000 which is easily the best bottle of wine I have ever had. The wine was so good, my guest and I were speechless. Funny how you never forget a bottle that good.
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Tasted alongside the Montrose and this shone. More feminine, elegant, complex with a longer finish. Dark fruits, can almost taste the terroir, truffles, forest floor. Nice balance. Will drink again.
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as close to perfect as you can get, on a plateau with good fruit, currants, spice, cedar, soft tannins, long, lingering finish, beautiful wine with years to go
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Terrific old Paulliac nose, medium-weight, sweet entry, still with lots of fruit, medium to long finish, about 45 seconds. Maybe getting slightly tired in the 750ml format. Only improved in the glass though, still lots of life left.
Tasted blind next to an ‘85 Sassicaia and ‘90 Beausejour Duffau. This was the best of the three and most distinguishable as a classic Pauillac from a great vintage. Incredible nose and a long smooth finish. However, having had the ‘82 Pichon three times before, this was not showing at its fullest potential based on what I know this wine can put out. Nevertheless, this is still a legendary wine and one to have on your bucket list if you haven’t had it before.
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1982 Bordeaux lunch (Cucinetta): Deep scarlet red in colour with considerable density. Exotic nose of coffee, violets, lavender, camphor, cedar and spicy merlot fruit. The vintage has given the wine a slightly roasted tinge to the fruit but it’s in balance due to the earlier picking/lower alcohol style of winemaking at the time. Glorious mature Bordeaux with a velvet texture and mouthfeel. As great as it’s reputation.
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OMG. What a bouquet of smell. Just outstanding. Brilliant color, at its pinnacle of optimum drinking, tour de force, lasting on the palate and with roasted lamb, to die for. Exceptional.
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Pausing for the Cause 2019 (Chicago, IL): From magnum. Put a notch in the bedpost for this one. I've read about this wine being sometimes inconsistent, but this magnum was absolutely spot on. The perfume on the nose is off the charts, showing some pyrazines, dried figs and dates, and a slight bit of leather. The palate is the archetype of an elegant Bordeaux -- it's simultaneously plush and structural. Slightly plummy and sweet, but not flabby. A touch of leather and more cedar round out the midpalate, finishing with some truly silky tannins.
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Decanted about 1.5 hours and consumed over 3 hours. Nose was nice from the start, not overly powerful, but amazing. Palate had outstanding complexity but started to fade a bit towards the end.
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The eighth wine of 14 vintages of Pichon Lalande back to ‘61 courtesy of Mark Golodetz. Perhaps the best balanced wine of the night, it has delicious dark red and black fruits with excellent vigor and great depth. Fewer tertiaries than I expected but this finish is deeply satisfying with good grip still but also such a smooth texture with great opulence and such supple tannins. It will be interesting to see where this wine goes over the next decade because there is potentially more complexity to come. However, I continue to believe this unique and brilliant Bordeaux was so good young that it peaked about 6-10 years ago.
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From magnum, good color and lovely nose after 30 minutes. Opened up after about an hour, super smooth and silky with no tannin. A soft and classy Bordeaux with a surprising amount of flavor, what a treat. It began to lose strength as it approached two hours from decant, but at it's best it was simply wonderful.
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This was simply, stunning! It had a bit of ullage, and cork was challenging to get out. Very short decant, then served. Wow! Ethereal aromas of sweet breads, forest floor, Pauillac pencil lead, blackcherries (no doubt from the Merlot). Fruit still there, elegant, soft, intoxicating. Went well with my Bison steak. Very tempted to find Magnums. Yes, drink the 750’s now! RP was right about this wine (100 Points)
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Consistent with my previous note. Wonderful mature Claret with beautiful nose of forest floor, autumn leaves, cake and spices. Palate is very tame now, the tannins almost too soft. Time to drink up these beauties.
Dinner with the W's and B's (Cafe Matisse in Rutherford, NJ): Decanted for about 1.5 hours. Shared at a dinner with 5 drinkers, so one glass each. A wonderfully long-lived classic Bordeaux. This bottle was all about graceful aging, but aging none the less. The bouquet yielded lots of cedar and some tobacco. These followed on to the medium bodied palate, along with an earthy note, some red fruit, and a bit more acidity than needed to balance. The finish was smooth, but "cedar heavy". Will continue to age and probably lose fruit for many years to come. I'm thinking that my personal sweet spot for this wine may have been about 10 years ago...
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82 Bordeaux (Piccolino, Liverpool Street Stn, London): Mellow, dark red fruit and a touch of green pepper. Fresh and elegant. Densely silky. Very poised and complete. Classic whilst still being a little racy. *****
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Gorgeous ripe blue and red fruit vapors permeate from the glass along with notes of cocoa, violets and cigar box. Complex and incredibly balanced, this wine checks all the boxes. The wine is pure finesse and stands toe to toe with the Giants of '82.
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Decanted 3 hours and drank over 3 hours following. Nose was nice but weak and stayed that way. Palate opened up with lots of fruit and complexity, great length. Hard not to expect some bottle variance with a wine of this age, relative to some previous amazing bottles.
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Tasted alongside an 83 comtesse and 82 Léoville barton. The 82 comtesse won out ahead of the barton and a little further behind the 83 comtesse. What can you say about this wine - simply excellent, stunning. The wine has years to go with lots of fruit. At the price point, I think the Barton is very good value in comparison but I really did prefer the comtesse.
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A breathtakingly gorgeous bottle, sourced a few years ago from Wine Watch, where the three elements of perfume, flavor and texture were all 97 point experiences. For a number of years I feared this vintage of P-L was fading but recently I am reassured it is clearly at peak from good bottles. It’s all about the luscious and sweet blueberry fruit and silky mouth feel, more Merlot than Cabernet Sauvignon. As usual, it seems impossible that this is Pauillac. Before #metoo, you could say it was feminine, in the best sense.
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Even at this age, this still is as good as it gets, even today. What an incredible wine this is: so pure, rich, complex, layers of fruit, overwhelmingly beautiful. Stunning legend.
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I expected the worst when the cork crumbled despite gently removing it with a blade corkscrew. But no problem here: the wine was singing. Great aromatic profile (tertiary & fruit) + depth + precision + elegance + harmony + length + tension - everything is there and quite perfect. This wine is still going strong - at least for well kept bottles. My and the groups WOTN. A humbling experience to taste this beauty.
TN: A dream nose (although it needed some time in the glass to get there) which boasts aromas of leather, tobacco, sous bois, wet forest floor, black truffles, mushrooms, black currant and blueberries. Nice intensity, nicely balanced and full of life. Same aromatics on the palate with some additional mineral notes of graphite and pencil shavings and some cedar wood. With time all tertiary aromas became more intense and drifted into the truffles spectrum (which for me is the best there is) and the fruit gained too. The structural frame is impeccable with fully integrated tannins and a lively acidity. Long finish and everything is in perfect harmony. A „wow“ wine.
Decanting: PnPed, then put into a decanter and consumed over three plus hours. Good from the start but it definitely improved two or three notches with time in the glass. This particular bottle would have needed one or two hours in the decanter.
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Opened and decanted, but poured immediately. Pretty intense (medium+) nose with great breadth of aromas. Initially heavy on meat, wet tobacco, earth, leather, cooked mushrooms. But also black or dark berries, graphite and gingerbread spices. Good precision here, getting sharper over time and in fact even more seductive. Easily maintains intensity and flavour complexity even over 2, 3h in the glass which is testament to a rock solid fabric.
Tannins have molten away but are still noticable in the structure. Surprising freshness still. Immense complexity on the palate, fully keeping the promise made to the nose. Having said that, the only minor negative was a slightly watery texture - although this probably comes as no surprise given the age.
I will for quite some time to come think back in awe and cherrish the first time I tasted a true wine legend.
Drunk onboard ship in midst of transatlantic crossing (Lisbon/Ft. Lauderdale), joined by the ship's head sommelier (who had stored my bottle and then opened it at table), accompanied by another wine-loving couple and paired with venison and sirloin and grilled tuna.
The bottle had been bought as a future ($15 a bottle for two cases) and was the final bottle from the first case (and the first opened from that case for at least five years).
There was about an inch of ullage. The cork was half-saturated and broke in two in its extraction. The sommelier had to withdraw his ah so and go to his trusty waiter's corkscrew, whose worm is, like all on that instrument, quite short. But with some reddening of his face (from effort and anxiety), he managed to get all but two small specks of cork out. The wine was then decanted without the available screen and poured into the decanter with its brilliant, dark color a seemingly defiant answer to any doubts that had arisen in regard to the weak cork (typical, in my experience of corks in old, red Bordeaux; corks in Italian wines and American reds and Bordeaux whites and some Australian whites of this (35+) age or older tend, in general, to fare better.
The wine in the glass was dark at its core with very little fading at its edge. It was very much the color of a young red of most any varietal (that doesn't show purple).
The aroma was enveloping if not intense and, as all agreed, classic (though I noticed some sous bois more typical of Burgundies; a good thing, from my point of view).
It was in the mouth that the wine was a bit disappointing. The tannins seemed to have faded so far beyond the fruit (and to have taken some of the fruit with them) that the wine lacked, as someone there said, a "punch." For me, it was a richness that was missing as well as a satisfying finish.
Well, all it needed was more air, more time.
Over the course of an hour and a half, with no other red wine at table (so each sip was precious), this old wine opened up and gained strength and wowed in particular our guest who had complained the most about it. He went from its greatest detractor to its most insistent supporter.
I--with another entire, unopened case of this in my cellar back home--was the wine's biggest skeptic. I had wanted (and had wanted to share) greatness. But in the end I felt what was great was (the idea of) our drinking a 1982 Pichon Lalande on a ship in the middle of the Atlantic. The wine itself was a fading beauty, probably better than anything we might have found on the ship's wine list (important and costly wines, but so much younger than this one and, for me, not ready and too expensive to boot) but moving toward its final (though years away) dance.
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Decanted and served. Pristine bottle bought at auction, very top shoulder, cork solid and stained almost to the top. Singing right away with a delicate nose of fine herbs. Full and balances on the palate with plenty of mature fruit. Very long finish with a little tart apple peel appearing as the fruit slowly fades. Consistent over an hour. What a youthful '82. A treasure and a treat.
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Another great bottle of ‘82 Pichon Lalande, courtesy of Wine Watch. Excellent color for age although no longer impenetrable. I would have taken this for ‘82 Léoville Las Cases - but that wine never seems to emerge like this one. If you want to quibble you could say it lacks complexity since the flavor and aroma is basically blackberry and dark raspberry. But the intensity of the perfectly ripe fruit is simply ravishing and never fades in the glass. The tannins are subsumed in the fruit salad. Acids are a bit high, although with the right food they are not too intrusive. Charming, plush and graceful, a lovely Pauillac that wants to be a St. Julien.
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Always a joy to drink, it's difficult to find a flaw. The nose here is as good as any 1982 Bordeaux. It was so generous, with aromas of ripe red fruits, menthol, cedar, violets, leather, and sous bois. This was a wine where you just wanted to keep the nose firmly planted in the glass. It was just as good on the palate. Everything is there...balance, elegance, sweetness, freshness... This continues to be in a great place, and with perfect bottles like this one, it's clear that this is still drinking at or near its peak.
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Hardly any discolouration, dark core. Tobacco, pencil shavings, spices, dark fruit, green pepper - such depth and complexity on the nose! On the palate rather youthful - wonderful tannic structure, perfectly integrated acidity, nice grip, lovely fruit, slightly spicy and mineral, very long and persistent. A complete, near-perfect wine. 97-99
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Austin Offline; 8/24/2018-8/25/2018 (Kevin's House): Color was very deep and fresh. Unfortunately, this bottle showed excessive green bell pepper and feces, generally lacking fruit and freshness. The structure and balance were outstanding. This was plainly a weak bottle, despite good provenance and excellent condition. Not scored.
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Great Bordeaux (Yan's China Bistro, Walnut Creek, Ca.): Joe opened this wine and I decided to use it for my Tasting Note #8000. Nose of bell pepper, cigar box, leather, and spring flowers, same on the palate, big body, rich fruit, mouth filling fruit. held up during the three hour lunch, at it's peak or slightly over the peak, elegant, complex, secondary flavors more evident as the lunch went on, green bell pepper always present but added complexity for us, and a long, flavorful finish and aftertaste. Thank you Joe. Uploaded a bottle picture.
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Nose: Wide open expression of Cherry, Plum, Blackberry and Cedar. Layers of nuance that evolve moment to moment with Coffee, Cocoa, Coconut, Spice and herb notes. Palate: Beautiful middle weighted palate with powdery soft tanins and exotic fruit and coconut oak notes. All of the nuance popping like fireworks. Finish: Still so penetrating and long with gorgeous fruit, oak and spice all in such fine balance.
Remains one of my favorite wines of all time, but tonight the class of the Mouton and LMHB put them ahead by a touch. An excellent bottle.
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Open all night (6:30pm - 3:00am), this remains incessantly open though it goes through a number of phases before eventually settling into a combination of all the best bits: plum, intense pencil, coconut, lily, a hint of cured meat.
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Tasted after 1979 Giscours and surprisingly slightly more evolved in colour in comparison. Fantastic nose - graphite, cedar, spices, tobacco, hint of green pepper, red and dark fruit. On the palate lots of almost juicy fruit, good acidity. Spicy. Generous, layered, round, complete. Soft tannic bite towards the very persistent finish. Fabulous! No rush drinking up. 96-98
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intoxicating velvety nose and palate. fruit-centric and complex in a way reminded me of Rouget. not a powerhouse by any stretch but well integrated and beautiful. I slightly preferred the 90 Beausejour drunk afterwards, I think others preferred this.
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1982 Bordeaux (Wine Watch Wine Bar, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida): For me, a good rather than great ‘82 Pichon-Lalande, without the exotic flair of the best bottles. Slightly muddy, missing focus and clarity. Not ripe enough. Steak without the sizzle. But it was the overwhelming favorite of the group in the 19 bottle horizontal of 1982 Bordeaux, so I must have been missing something.
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1982 Bordeaux Horizontal (Bar Boulud): This nose has cool blueberry fruit and an exotic sort of opulence. Mild spices as well. This is getting aromatically more and more playful and intriguing. Guessed Mouton on account of the great bouquet and it was Lalande, which makes sense. Palate is delicious and approachable. Integrated. Maybe missing the soily texture of the first growth Pauillacs, but hard not to like this.
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The fill was into the neck and the cork was pristine. A ruby core with amber at the rim. Bouquet was a bit subdued at first, and clearly not showing as great as it should. Having already struck out this evening with bad bottles of the 82 Gruaud Larose and 90 LLC, I reinsert the cork and take with us to Bibou! Improved over the next 2 hours, offering up restrained notes of black fruits, leather, and hints cf cigar box. Medium bodied, lacking the texture and focus of the best bottles. Too much of a risk to buy any more of this wine, even from normally reliable sources like CellaRaiders.
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Completely firing on all cylinders. Earthy, mushrooms, Cigar, with plenty of soft mellowed out dark fruit. Tannins completely resolved, in perfect harmonious balance. It's a classic wine, and this was an exceptional bottle.
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Absolutely hitting on all cylinders. Mushroom, earth, loam, tobacco, and saddle leather dripping with voluptuous juicy black currants. Tasted along side stiff competition of 10 other wines double blind. Group WOTN. Average bottle price at the table was $500+. Easy for a wine to shine in isolation. Not so easy when pitted against other "Legends" of the wine world. I don't think the wine will get better with time, but, it has been on this same plateau for 5+ years already.
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Lucky enough to enjoy this courtesy of a generous friend. The colour suggests youth with a deep ruby with a brick edge. The nose has blackcurrant but with a wonderful floral and perfumed smell. There’s also cedar, pencil shaving and smoke too. The palate delivers everything you get from the nose, the wine has lots of fruit still but secondary and tertiary flavours too plus a punch in a velvet glove. This wine still has lots of life ahead of it but is delicious now.
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Decanted for 45 min. Perfect cork. At its apex, just outstanding, all tannins resolved, perfect balance and finish. Everything is singing perfectly. Outstanding. Reputation not disappointed. Will hold for 20 more years.
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Decanted about 2.5 hours and enjoyed over the 3 hours following. Nose was nice but not as pronounced as some bottles. Palate was excellent and consistent with previous notes. Outstanding bottle, just a little shy of the best.
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Just decanting it told me the blackcurrant would likely dominate, which it did with a good contribution of plum. Really full-on fruit, and I suspect at peak condition for drinking. And several more bottles left...
Also gives me confidence that my storage conditions are OK.
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Acker BYO 2017 (Tribeca Grille): One of the best wines of the night. You as anything, but still fabulous spot. Spice and pepper and red fruits and very intense. What a really stunning Bordeaux. CT window of 2014 is straight up wrong - this has many years of life yet.
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Best bottle of wine that I have ever had. Had this during a magical dinner at Komi in DC. Youthful right out of the bottle but very quickly opened up after a swirl and a few minutes. Smoked meats, pencil shavings, ash, moist earth on the nose; dark fruits, cassis, garrigue, and a whole host of other little surprises over the course of the 2.5 hours we drank it. I can see what people were saying about this being a bit past its prime, as the wine was starting to close a bit by the end of the bottle, but didn't do enough to detract from the experience. In a nutshell, how I wish every glass of wine that I drink tasted.
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Rough looking bottle but perfect cork, decanted about 3 hours. Nose was great immediately when popped and continued for the duration. Palate was wonderful for several hours after decant until gone. Definitely picked a winner bottle. Everything a Bordeaux should be.
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One of the most exceptional wines ive tastes and would have given more points if I could have tasted a little more fruit or maybe really been able to sit with it awhile—sharing with 6 people so hard to say. Also was busy getting dinner on the table. Would drink up definitely.
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Perfect bottle. Dense garnet color. Intense nose of red and dark fruit, lead pencil and pepper. Full body, perfect balance and long finish. This is so good now.
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Stood up a week before drinking, then poured into Zalto universal glasses about 30 minutes before dinner. The nose is an wonderful as ever, a complex mix of cassis, black plums, old leather, mushrooms and more. The palate, though excellent, is not quite where is was when I rated a bottle of this from Blantyre 100, the only 100 I have scored on CT.
This is still a fantastic wine, but a bit off the peak in 2011, in my opinion. I'm sure it will provide an interesting drinking experience for many years, but it is likely to continue to slowly decline, unless it has been stored in a very cold cellar since release.
Alas, my last bottle. Good bye, old friend!
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Ch. Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande Vertical Tasting with Nicolas Glumineau (Taberna del Alabardero): This has been a bucket list wine for me for ages. So thrilled to finally get to try it, from pristine chateau stock no less. Wonderful aromatics that have gone totally past the fruit -- mushroom broth and cocoa nibs and other stuff savory and delectable, eventually picking up some nuttiness too. On the palate it feels more slender than the '85 or '89, practically waifish, but it more than delivers in class what it lacks in size. The texture is buttery smooth, the material fine as silk. All the flavors in the aroma are present on the palate too, with that cocoa nib thing adding darker grooves to a fruit base that's actually not quite as pitch-black as some of the other vintages. One of the main draws here is that this is a wine with everything. Practically anything you could taste in any of the other vintages is here, somewhere, though so well-integrated and harmonious it's difficult to point and pick anything out. The other big draw is its pure finesse. There is more to this wine than to any of the others, but all of that is spun out from material that's noticeably leaner than the others and impossibly fine. A Burgundy drinker's Bordeaux.
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Pichon Lalande dinner with Nicolas Glumineau (Taberna del Alabardero, Washington D.C.): The 82 Pichon Lalande has been one of the most consistent 82s that seems to always flirts with perfection. It combines the hedonistic opulent fruit of the vintage with PL’s freshness and energy, i.e. bell pepper/lead pencil . Unfortunately the expression on this bottle is not so clear. All the components seem to be there but the impression is slightly murky. Medium expressive nose displaying decadent ripe red fruit with a hint of cassis, a hint of bell pepper and lead pencil, cedar, caramel and strong wet limestone like mineral. There is a hint of soy like oxidative note which is unusual. Excellent concentration, nicely layered, good acidity, nicely integrated tannins and a medium to long ripe black fruit, green pepper and cedar driven finish. Really enjoyable but not the best bottle I have had.
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After my disappointing recent experience of this wine, I pulled a bottle from my cellar and shared with some experienced tasters (including an MW). We all agreed this was a perfect bottle. It was very different to my previous note, with waves of rich concentrated fruit - together with tobacco, cedar and graphite. The mouthfeel and power was completely different. An amazing wine which we all scored 98-100pts. My only slight concern was that the wine seemed to fade after 30mins in our glasses - I would be inclined to drink up here and enjoy whilst still at peak. GREAT STUFF!
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My last bottle, one of the great wines, and it was off. Brett? I don't know. Gave my lady a migraine. I had built this up to her based on prior bottles, primed her with 2000, 2003- and this one flubbed. I saved the night with a 2006 LaLa, but that was one expensive wine night. I don't think I will buy any more of the 1982.
Remarkably, this has barely budged in development from my 100 pt note of 1/22/06 (my only CT score of 100 among 815 notes). Remains very ripe (just short of being edgy in that regard); cigar lover's dream nose and incredible breadth of flavors, rich and opulent. My note of nearly 12 years ago still applies quite closely. Great stuff!
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Decanted 90 minutes. Rich and voluptuous with silky texture, notes of dark fruit, cassis, cedar, damp earth. This wine is still fabulous, although possibly past it's prime. That being said, I don't plan on rushing to finish my remaining 7 bottles - I'll be sad when they're gone!
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This particular bottle is showing the dill and greenstalk side of this vineyard on the nose and palate. After a 2-hr decant, it began to show that silky decadence that this great wine has always displayed with notes of dark chocolate, dill, roasted nuts and liquid graphite minerals. Despite the green stuff, the texture of the wine is from another world and while not as complex on the finish as it was a few years ago, the beguiling nature of this wine is something to behold.
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Decanted for two hours and opened up nicely with typical aged Bordeaux characters. During the evening hints of class and star quality shined through but only briefly. Class act concentrated cassis and pencil perfume would come and go, both in bouquet and taste. The finish was beautiful and the tannins was magical.
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Reunion (San Antonio): Grander and richer than any of the other Lalande’s I’ve recently had from the 80’s. Typical pipe tobacco character of Lalande, but with a deeper larger scale. Youthful as in energetic, though clearly in a mature state. Fruit is still present but seems to be mature and tertiary. Soft tannins and plush entry—but so well poised and polished. Lengthy finish adding caramel, mint, and tobacco . Great wine—among the handful of best wines I’ve ever had. My wife also strongly endorsed. This definitely met very high expectations.
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Decanted 2 hours, and needed it based on initial tastes. Nose stayed weak but palate was very nice. Improved further over an hour with increased complexity, and then was consistent for 3 more hours until gone.
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Getting mature but way long to be fully mature. With air, signature bell pepper, blackcurrant, pencil shaving aroma burst out with ever changing complex note of earth, leather, smokiness. Medium body on palate, perfecty balance, mellowed tannins. Ultra fine and focus, layers and layers mid palate. Hands up. This is Pauillac, this is the best Bordeaux wine we lovers ought to look for.
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This bottle was in perfect condition - base neck ullage and good capsule/cork. Outstanding right out of the bottle. A wine of great finesse. Beautiful bouquet. Very polished on the palate. Everything in balance; a pure joy to taste. After 4 hours, a rusty oxidized flavor developed and it was over. Wow. 99 until the last few sips.
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'82 Bordeaux and Friends (Rene's): (Tasted blind) Richest nose of the flight; loads of cedar, some red fruit and smoke. Beautiful texture on the palate at first, though leaned a touch metallic with time open. Soft tannic finish. Tasted right bank, boy was I wrong.
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Mostly French dinner at Ripple - Champ, Burg, Bordeaux and etc. (Ripple Restaurant in DC): Explosive nose displaying crème de cassis, crushed blueberry, ink, caramel, cabernet floral dust, cedar and lead pencil. There is also a hint of PLL green that adds the freshness and complexity. Exceptional concentration, perfectly harmonious plate, silky and polished, layers upon layers of cassis fruit, no noticeable tannins and an incredible long cassis and ink driven finish. Absolutely decadent yet perfectly precise and fresh.
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Polished silk is what this stunner feels like on your palate. There is depth, vibrancy, weight and length, finishing with a boatload of cassis, black cherry, tobacco, cigar box, cedar and olives that keep on going. Fully mature, it's hard to believe that according to oldtimers, this wine has been that good since it was released!
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Subsequent notes on this wine. Deep, dark garnet with some bricking & clearing at the edges. Full, forward, fragrant & attractive nose of complex & well developed, ripe fruit aromas of dark cherries, blackberries & plums with classic cigar box overtones of cedar wood, tobacco & floral notes of violets, dusty/earthy, pencil/graphite, aged leather, herbal notes of juniper, underbrush with secondary notes of earthy, truffles, dark cocoa, coffee, olives, spice notes of cardamom & sandalwood & minerals. Medium-full bodied with a very good concentration well balanced & silky smooth textured, very well integrated, developed & mature, plush & lush, ripe fruit flavors of dark cherries, black currants, blackberries & plums with spices, earthy, herbs, cocoa, coffee & minerals. Long lingering smooth finish. Drinks quite well at present and appears to have the structure & fruit to hold onto its current plateau of development for a few more additional years although any further development is doubtful. An absolutely beautiful Bordeaux at 35 years of age; possibly one of the outstanding highlights of the fabled 1982 vintage.
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I've become familiar with bottle variation in this wine so tried two (not from my cellar). Looked older than other 82s, with lovely tertiary notes of sois bois plus sweet blackberry. With 20mins of air a lot more cedar than expected, and with further air it became smokey. I would have scored 93pts and suspected a poor bottle. Opened a 2nd bottle which was much better - more graphite, body and some tannin - still more St Julien than Paulliac for me. 96pts (for 2nd bottle). Look forward to trying next time using my bottles.
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Wow!, Compared to a 1998 Latour I tasted this has so much more to give. Tobacco, leather, chocolate, and still a lot of red fruit. It almost tastes like a dark sweet chocolate mousse with some brandy in it. Although I think it will not improve, you can still keep this for years to come. Superb!
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Nineteen eighty-two Pichon-Lalande is a great wine without a doubt. Although this bottle, purchased many years ago, may not be perfectly representative since it was recorked 1993, I find every bottle of it to be splendid regardless of source. Beautiful mature healthy deep ruby color. Superb and very deep bouquet of dark raspberry and black cherry, almost sweet on the nose. On the palate, assertive, both robust and elegant with very fine acidity and very ripe tannins. What's missing are any secondary or tertiary notes to add complexity. Could this vintage of P-L still be too young?
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Pure silky fruits, supple, opulent, sensuous textures and tobacco, wet earth, cassis, cigar box, dark cherry character that tasted, smelt and felt great on your palate. Fully mature, this was poured after maybe 20-30 minutes in the decanter.
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Picked this semi-blind in the flight of Pichons. Wow. Deep ruby, no noticeable age. Dark cherry, leather, jasmine, black tea, earthy spice, licorice. Lovely sweet, ripe and healthy fruit. Great freshness and balance, coats the mouth and so delicious. 30+ second finish but just so balanced. Full of energy. The greatest Pichon Lalande ever made. Not even close to being surpassed by anything made under the new current ownership.
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One of the best of the 22 consumed so far. 2 left. Perfect wine, compete in every respect. Still tastes fresh and young, no real bricking yet. Christmas Day with Dave and Beef Wellington, alongside 94 Bryant which was also excellent.
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Tasted with Francophile1 and am in agreement with his comments. Monumental wine in all respects - from the moment the cork is pulled (a perfect cork, recorked at the Chateau in 1993), the depth of the wine is sensed. Incredible nose fills the room. Supple yet firm, smorgasbord of dark fruit and meat flavors with a long, long finish. Most remarkable was the sweetness of the tannins - highly structured and sweet, sweet, sweet. Never had a wine marrying structure with such pure pleasure. Perfect for the intellectual, hedonist and everyone in between. Decanted and drank over several hours with no drop off - opened nicely within 20 minutes and remained great all evening. Peak drinking if stored properly. Best '82 Bordeaux I've ever had and top-5 of my lifetime for sure.
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I've been blessed to have had this wine three times now. However, I would give this 100+ points if it were possible. This particular bottle ranks up in my top 5 wine tasting experiences of all time. This particular bottle was perfect having been recorked by the Chateau in 1993, this was perfection from the start through the middle and all the way to the finish. If this wine is on your bucket list, make sure you check it off before it is too late. I actually like it more than the '82 Latour, Mouton, and Margaux. It is drinking in its peak maturity window and appears to still have life left on it. I was incredibly impressed by the length of the finish and the sweetness of the tannin. While we drank some good wines after this, unfortunately, everything else pales in comparison. In a word... Perfection!
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Very special. This bottle was in great condition. The '82 vintage is peerless in my book and the wines are drinking perfectly right now. What I remember most vividly from this wine is the elegance and complexity of the nose. A captivating wine.
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Achim's Magnum Tasting 2016 (Berens am Kai 1 star Restaurant): From Magnum, in great shape, together in a flight with GL 1982 (cork), reserve bottle was 1985 Phelps Insignia (96p). still young, firm and ripe tannins, great refreshing acidity, black currant with cedar and cigar box, starting to make fun, 96-97
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One of the greatest wines I have ever tasted, certainly one of the best Bordeaux! I would give it more than 100 points if it were possible! Amazingly dark and opaque for 34 years old, with no hint of brown at the edges; with immediate very pronounced sweet aromas of toasty French oak, cedar, hint of tobacco, cassis, all dancing together. In the mouth, flavors that build over 30 seconds, rich cassis and oak, roasted meat, mouth-coating but smooth and rich without significant tannin. Extremely long aftertaste, with touch of anise on the smooth finish. Went very well with short ribs. Tasted alongside 1990 Chateau Latour, which was also excellent, but this was clearly a cut above. Perfectly mature. Ric
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Fabulous wine. Drank with braised beef. Still youthful, green peppers on the nose. Macerated fruit, tobacco, silex. Beautiful. At least 5-7 years left, if not more. Much more young and vibrant than the 1983 drank the same night. 97.
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Nose: closed a bit early in the night with generic leather dark fruit and violet notes. However once fully open this became a pleasure bomb of sweet red fruits, spices, violets, blackberry and graphite. Palate: the feel on this was absolutely regal as usual and the dense sweet cherry was followed by leather jacket, baking spice and beautiful vanilla tones. Finish: Long and filled with a melange of flowers blackberry and spices. Somewhat less compelling than a prior bottle.
This bottle did not get enough time to open up fully. The last glass from the decanter later on the evening was really nice and showing lots of layers. Another Nath Johnston bottle.
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Largely consistent with the last bottle. Base neck fill. A beautifully matured nose of black currant, black cherry, cedar, eucalyptus, campfire smoke, and fresh violets. A palate that I would describe as complete, with equally balanced components. There is solid structure left, but it doesn't overpower anything. A long finish that completes the experience of a near-perfect wine.
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A(ccuracy)=2: Classic, fully resolved claret. B(alance) =2: Endowed with exceptional fruit, this was bit loose knit with less than perfect acid structure from the get go. Now with fruit fading, the result is short of the ethereal gem that one wished for. C(omplexity)=2: Still rich and nuanced but not many layers. D(epth) = 2 : great length and finish but not without edges.
WineTally Score [2,2,2,2]=8/10
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This bottle of '82 Pichon Lalande, courtesy of DrinkBordeaux, was fabulous and erased any doubt I might have about its aging trajectory. Incredibly voluptuous and sweet but in that very special Bordeaux way that combines great structure of tannins and acidity perfectly balanced with the juicy black cherry, boysenberry and red licorice fruit. This particular bottle was amazingly youthful and even better than all the previous times I have been fortunate enough to taste it.
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I don't give out 100 points very often, but it was hard to find a flaw with this wine tonight. But while I'm not sure a perfect wine exists, this one was pretty incredible. The nose needed very little time to open up, and when it did, it provided aromas of ripe red fruits, fresh cherries, eucalyptus, cedar, violets, and a bit of forest floor. A friend at the table called it a 'sweet nose,' and I have to concur. The wine was equally impressive on the palate. Perfectly balanced, with silky tannins that are so well integrated. There is enough acidity to create a nice freshness to balance with the ripe fruit. The culminated in a smooth, long finish. This edged out the 82 Latour tonight, which says an awful lot about this wine.
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It had a decadent rich coffee and mocha attack. It had a surprisingly thick, creamy texture and was full-bodied and exuberant. This was a good bottle of this now legendary wine firing on all cylinders. It perhaps lacked the sheer class, poise and complexity of its first growth table mates. Drink now.
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Magnum. Have tasted this wine a number of times over the last 20 years and even today is one of my favorites. She may have lost a little bit of beauty from ten years ago, but is still an absolutely lovely wine. 97
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Thanks to Derrald for the opportunity to enjoy this wine with a steak dinner as we both store our wine at 52 degrees. Nose of freshly sliced red bell pepper, black cherry, black currants, and cracked pepper, same on the palate, rich and elegant fruit, mouth filling fruit played well versus the bell pepper which subsided on the nose during the three hour dinner and became more evident on the long, long finish, at it's best so drink up. I favored this wine by one point over the Gruaud Larose.
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Poured into decanter and tasted. Nose was good, but not ready. Tasted 1.5 hours later, same nose but much better palate and finish. 2.5 hours after opening it was singing and lasted 2 more hours until it was gone.
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66x Parker 100-Pointers from Bordeaux 1947-2010 tasted blind (Switzerland): Tasted blind. Medium brick. Here we go, after three duds from 1986. The first wine in the tasting that evoked a wow. Expressive nose of cedar, barnyard, spices. Soft and elegant on the palate, great length. This is approaching the end of its drinking window and it is understandable that this probably was a 100 pointer when this was at its peak. Great, aged Claret still, 97 tonight. Group score: 18.61, group rank: 12/64
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Evolved in colour but still fairly youthful. Expressive and layered on the nose - notes of spices, flowers, dark fruit, tobacco, graphite, dried fruit, too. Soft and elegant on the nose - fresh, with a nice core of ripe fruit, powdery tannins and superb persistence. Wonderful. No rush at all drinking up. 95-97
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Sushi Taro Dinner: Incredibly intense nose displaying dark fruits, crème de cassis, cabernet dust, dark flowers, a hint of PLL green, cedar, caramel and lead pencil. It is fascinating to observe the interplay of the 82 ripeness and PLL green/vegetal, ie decadent yet fresh. Exceptional concentration, beautiful layered intense black fruits, silky and polished, nicely integrated fine tannins and lovely long finish. Still remains quite youthful. This can please both traditionalist and modernist. Exceptional showing.
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Bright shiny red raspberry, lead pencil nose palette slightly off balance with soft stewed fruits, no longer the jammy wine I remember, spices warm baking like, surprised by lack of fruit.
Bright shiny red raspberry, lead pencil nose palette slighly off balance with soft stewed fruits, no longer the jammy wine I remember, spices warm baking like, surprised by lack of fruit.
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This wine never disappoint. No decant. Great bottle of mature bordeaux. Unbelievable nose of a mix of berries, some graphite, truffles and coffee. The taste is zen, with good acidity, soft tannins and a moderate finish. Drink now. One of the best values when I think about great bordeaux of the last century.
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I've been nurturing this magnum for 15 years in my 55 degree cellar, having bought it at a charity auction from another good cellar. Drank it at our 25th anniversary dinner. It was a 100 on the nose. Heavenly, complex, and seductive. The finish was a little flat and less spectacular at the beginning, but rivaled the nose after an hour and a half. I only decanted the wine just before drinking. I think I should have decanted it at least an hour in advance. I'm sad it's gone, but I had to drink it at some point. It was time.
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Surprisingly, this particular bottle didn't do it for me. An overpowering tangy, olive-like green smell which detracted from enjoyment. Better on the palate.
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Again, no great wine, but great bottles. Recent critics suggest '82 Pichon Lalande started to exit its prime drinking window. Not this bottle. So profound, both nose and palate. Mature Bordeaux with tons of joy. Tannins resolved. Finish medium plus.
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Memorial Day Mondo Event - Burghounds & Bordelais: How do you follow a '90 Montrose? With a perfectly stored bottle of '82 Pichon Lalande is how. The last bottle I had of this was cooked, but this wine was perfect. At this stage of maturity, I place this as the best I've had from 1982 even beating the Latour & Mouton. Only time will tell if the 1st growths will beat it as they mature. Nevertheless, this is a top notch 1st growth worthy wine. In the glass is has everything I love about Bordeaux and is 100% Pauillac in every sense of the word. Wow! This wine won WOTN hands down and it was up against stiff competition (no label bias either... everyone agreed it was WOTN before it was revealed). A memorable wine for the ages!
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Burg & Bordeaux $100+ (Duluth, GA): Dark garnet core with brick rim; wet earth, sweet fruit, compost, so balanced, silky, aged, cedar with good fruit, mushroom; so good on the palate, incense, coffee grounds, honey comb, luxurious tannin; incredible, and still very fresh; knew this was going to be a monster from a great vintage that drank much younger than its age.
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Out of jeroboam. Tobacco, graphite, cedar. All very classic and in order--lovely dark red fruits, full finish. A very good wine but not an exceptional one considering the vintage and format. Probably popping and pouring at event wasn't best showcase. Still highly pleasurable and at peak in this size
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Drank at 67 Much more younger and vibrant than the previous bottle with a rich powerful dense fruit nose with spice and earth. Smooth long mouth coating palate. Lovely.
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This bottle was double decanted for 3.5 hours before serving. Nose was tight with a bit of flowers and black fruit. The structure of this wine was the best among the red wine. It just didnt open up tonight. Very young wine. Give this 5-8 more years. There could be some bottle variation in this one tonight.
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Red currants, baking spices, pine forest, bell pepper, and a touch of custard on the nose. Lightweight in the mouth, and so fresh, with good length. Tannin to stay alive for awhile to come, but hard to imagine this could get better.
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I have been lucky enough to sample this one three times. One disappointment probably due to a flawed bottle, two times delight:
Unlike many other vintages of the Comtesse, the 1982 combines the usual charmes and fragrances with a firm structure and good substance.
There are many promises being made whilst smelling the wine and the mouthfeel confirms these. Dark and red berries, sandalwood, cedar, coffee, leather etc., long finish.
Providing solid storage, this wine should keep very well for another 10 years (2025?) with the silky tannins softening further.
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Flowers, spice, green pepper, cassis and fresh cherries kick off the perfume. The wine is ready to drink. And if you do pop a well stored example, be prepared for a silky, soft, polished, elegant and delicious wine with a sensuous, rich finish.
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Well integrated spice and earth notes with white pepper, dusty soil, and a background hint of corriander. Not the most expressive bottle though. Required a full 1.5 hours to open up.
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Decanted 3 liter bottle cellared from release. Cork extraction whole and flawless. Classic P-L berry-floral nose, with earthiness that faded to a subtle undertone after minutes in the glass. On the palate, plenty of fruit, soft tannins, perfect balance of acidity and roundness. Slight bricking at the edges of the glass. Not as voluptuous as in the early years, but what it gained in complexity rewarded the patience. Drinks more like a Paulliac-St. Julien than a straight-up Paulliac now.
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Pure silky pleasure that is made better with fruits displaying the texture of polished velvet, a complex nose and a dark chocolate, black cherry, plum finish that does not quit.
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Opened a 750ml bottle for Kathy, Joe, Charles and Stephanie at Flemings, completed saturated cork opened in two pieces, nose of cigar box, bell pepper, black cherry, plum, and fig fruit, more of the same on the palate, richer tasting and slightly bigger tasting wine than the 1982 Chateau Haut Batailley, medium/big body, delicious, good but not great complexity, mouth filling rich fruit, long, long finish.
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From magnum. This bottle was somewhat shutdown. White pepper, red fruit, light clove. But none of the more exotic spice and black fruit that perhaps more evolved bottles (all 750s) have shown. Very good, but on this evening not spectacular. 94+?
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Started drinking right after opened. Subtle nose with well-balanced all around nose. Wood, subtle dark fruits, morning forest and graphite. Silky smooth on the palate. Although this wine could be a few years past its peak, it's still at an extremely elite level that few can rival. Two hours in the bottle the wine opened up slightly more. Flavors of dark fruits opened up more. Medium finish with hints of licorice. And it doesn't get any better from there, goes slightly down after 4 hours in the bottle. So, I don't get it when someone decanted this wine for 3 or 6 hours. Don't do that.
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The Fourteenth Stonefields Dinner (Guelph, Ontario, Canada): The nose was dominated by pyrazene, black fruit, graphite and lead pencil. On the palate there was similar dark fruit, pyrazene, lend pencil, graphite, earth and leather but there was also some brett and a touch of volatility that detracted from the bottles overall quality. It seemed as if its best days had been behind it...there was nothing wrong with it at all, but I got the sense that it would have been better 3-5 years earlier. The finish was medium+.
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Decanted 2.5 hours, not much on the nose but a lengthy finish, took another hour for it to start opening up, then it was a shame since it was gone. Maybe a better score next time with a longer decant.
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This wine remains a mystery to me. I've had it 5 times now and every time it shows very very differently. I could not pick it out in a blind tasting if my life depended on it. I've had bottles that were huge oak, earth, and brett bombs, and other bottles that were shy and austere.
This one was different than either. It was very fruit driven with a nose full of high toned strawberry and cherry fruit which really highlighted the Merlot in the blend. There was a good amount of complexity and the fruit was really front and centre. The palate was similarly fruit driven with cherry as well as herbal notes. Very very smooth on the palate and finish making it exceedingly easy to drink.
I guessed this was the 1990 Margaux based on the elegance and fruit driven nature of the wine. My friend picked it out blind based on a honey note on the nose, which seems to be a tell for Pichon Lalande, as we've seen it on a number of vintages now.
Although an excellent wine, for me it was not as complex, intense, or exciting as the other incredible wines in the flight and did not measure up. A previously explosively earthy, bretty, and oaky bottle of this wine was loved by all and topped a 1982 horizontal, but this bottle was nothing like that one.
My #8, the group's #7.
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Magnum exceptionnel, dans ma cave depuis 30 ans. Into neck. Bouchon très friable. Décanté 3 heures avant consommation. Couleur grenat violet, très dense. Arômes d'expresso, de roses fanées, de fruits rouges, de mine de crayon. Bouche somptueuse, très puissante, jamais lourde, beaucoup de complexité, de structure et de très belle longueur. Sur la base de ce magnum, facilement 10 ans devant lui. Très impressionnant!
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8th of 12, perfect cork and fill, decanted an hour, previous notes very fine plus or better - youthful, dark garnet, still dense on rim, even some purple; attractive, rich cassis, slightly baked, some tobacco and chocolate, classy; full bodied for claret, rich and silky fruit, very long and persistent, with a touch more acidity this would be nigh on perfect, even so I can see this developing more complexity over the next 10 years. Very fine plus (19/20).
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Very dark core still with some evolution around the rim. Very healthy and bright in colour. On the nose open and expressive, showing lots of depth and complexity. Tobacco, spice box, dark fruit, forest notes, smoke - very elegant and seductive. On the palate layered and perfectly balanced, great texture with good grip. Still lots of fruit. Everything is in the right place. The finish is in a different league compared to all other wines tasted this evening. Superb and complete with a good future. Drink or keep. 96-98
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1982, 1985 & 1989 Bordeaux Super Seconds, with Richard Brazier (Handford Wines, London): Our first encounter with this beautiful wine. HAs a bit of evolution on the colour, but not much. Quite evolved and classic on the nose, still a good healthy dose of fruit though. Secondary on the finish. Alive and complex, joyful, well balanced and pure. An excellent wine. 96
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Still deep garnet in the glass. Gorgeous bouquet of damp soil, coffee grounds, tea leaf, leather, and red cedar. An excellent medley of the aforementioned notes on the palate culminating in a soft and silky mouthfeel. Faint tannin and oak hang around. More fruit power than expected for the age. Although a great bottle and a real pleasure to drink, the 'mystique' of '82 Left-Bank leaves something to be desired here... The closer of a Lalande vertical spanning 2000 to 1982.
BYO European Wine (Restaurant Kul): Still intense and fresh with plenty of fruit left. This bottle was really good and perhaps the best tasted yet. The wine is all about the impressive balance where everything just fits together nicely while still having its own personality. A huge wine. Will probably not improve from this point on but still able to keep for a very long time.
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Souper de 50 ans à la maison: Un nez très jeune, expressif comme un coup de poing! Des nuances de cassis, de mine de crayon, avec un coté fumé. La bouche est encore très jeune et montre encore un fruit frais renversant. La texture est crémeuse et le tout se termine avec une finale époustouflante de finesse. Incroyable comment le fruit est encore jeune! L'équilibre du vin est incroyable, avec une puissance aromatique et une longueur exceptionnelles. Un très grand vin qui se montre à la hauteur de sa réputation. 98+ pts
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Clear terracotta brick color. Simply sublime nose right out of the gate with autumnal and animal hints over sweet decaying fruit. Gorgeous silky smooth and long palate. A wonderful vinous experience!
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Stunning nose of roasted nuts, ripe black currants and opulent black minerals. A perfect bottle that shows a beautiful silky texture along with surprisingly full flavors of mature Pauillac including warm cassis, smooth black fruits, a touch of green olive and graphite minerals. The finish just oozes through with these delicious flavors along with softened tannins and complex notes of leathers, minerals and old wood. As impossible as this is to stop drinking, I think '82 PL peaked about 3-5 years ago atleast in a 750 bottle and should be drunk now to still experience the incredible fruit and flavors this amazing wine still puts forth. 96-
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Beautiful florid nose and body of plum/black cherry fruit with multilayered flavors leather, spice, and vanilla oak, excellent structure and balance, long finish, this gorgeous wine is at is best but may fade in next 5-10 years, a truly spectacular wine
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Boysenberry, marionberry, cardamom, clove, speck, bell pepper, black truffle mix is intoxicating. On the palate the fruit turns somewhat redder with earthy notes thrown in. Vibrant throughout the palate with a strong finish.
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Bottle ex-chateau, perfect condition. Living proof that there are no great wines, just great bottles. I be had this wine several times in the last twenty years and always regarded it as one of the top 3 1982s. Recent bottles showed that the wine is fading. Not this one! Tasted like a 15 year wine. Deep colour, stunning nose of tobacco and a finish that went on forever. If you find any bottles directly from the chateau buy them!
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Big Bordeaux IX (Kevin's house 4/18/15). Why am I cursed with a palate that loves expensive wine? Wonderful. So this is what all the fuss is about with Boerdeaux. Some pleasant funk on nose along with an earthy/woodsie quality. A wine to just hold and smell without drinkingg; but who can hold back. Such a rich, full mouth feel.Some vegal hints. A wow wine, and my second favorite.
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Big Bordeaux IX (Kevin's house): Slow-O for about 4 hours, decanted for 1 hour; drank 1+ glass over 3 hours. This was freeking amazing. A beautiful nose and a very impressive palate. This has every Bordeaux descriptor in it except barnyard.
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A real treat. Was popped and poured in the cellar of our gracious (and benevolent) host. Nose of absolute gun powder. Taste and finish just makes you close your eyes and try to describe what the hell is going on in your mouth. An unforgettable experience.
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Nose: kaleidoscopic, red fruit, black fruit, blackberries, toffee, spices, gunpowder, strawberry bubble gum (!), sweet flowers, and tobacco. Every nuance just danced through the nose. Ever evolving through the 5 hours we sat with this. Palate: Patience was required to watch this evolve but paid off in spades. Full, rich, nuanced and every element sang high notes. So elegant and seamless. A melange of berries, spices, earth, chocolate. Though provoking and a joy to drink. Finish: long but not cloying. Deft balance & silky feel with detailed spices, oak, berries, fine cigar, coffee and earth.
Bordeaux does not get better than this. Perfect bottle living up to expectations. One of the greats...
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Big Bordeaux IX featuring '82 Pichon LaLande and Leoville Las Cases and More (Rocknroller's (Kevin & Vicki's Place)): Very dark red plus color with a 1cm transitional margin. Slow-O for about 4 hours, decanted for 1 hour; drank 1+ glass over 3 hours. One whiff and you knew this was exquisite, one taste and you were elevated to another place. Ethereal, evocative, insert your adjective here. An impressive nose with ground tobacco, deep wet earth, a touch of funk, a seductive perfume of potpourri, red raspberry, cassis, black cherry. The palate is just wow, wow, wow, lifted, incredibly earthy, damp, vibrant, gorgeous velvety red and blue and black fruits, sleek ultra fine grained tannins and a very, very long finish. It's hard to even put in words, it simply makes me giddy. My and group WOTN, hands down. 97+ to 98pts.
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An incredibly generous treat, and one that exceeded everyone's highest expectations! Decanted and enjoyed over many hours. Much of that was fighting over who's turn it was to plant one's nose in the decanter! Just a beguiling, constantly changing sequence of aromas over those hours: currant, cedar, white flowers, lavender, strawberry bubble gum (!), baking spice, all the way back to tobacco. A couple hours in, I was nervous that it might be drying a touch on the palate, but it magically took that very deep breath in and expanded even more in the ensuing hour-plus. Beyond elegant - almost the polar opposite of "power" - on the palate, just the thinnest layer of silk, spinning over a minute-plus finish. Ethereal. Just an extraordinary experience, and the start of a wonderful new pursuit: "make the Palmer show second best!" Thank you very much, PB!
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Hello again old friend. Unlike the 90 Palmer, this was a little more fickle. But when it was on, it was really on. About 3 hours into the decant, a seamlessly integrated nose of currant, violets, lavendar, cedar, cinnamon, and Indian spices. Wonderful.
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Big Bordeaux 9: The hype didn't live up to the expectation. It is hard to believe my friend paid what he did for this wine as the 04 I am drinking now is not that much worse for the ware. Medium purple. Coffee, spice, blue fruits, and earth. Balance and elegant. Medium to long finish. Drink now to 2020.
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Popped, breathed in bottle two hours, consumed over next two. Needed about 15 minutes in the glass to come together and then it plateaued all night. The tapestry of flavors is so finely knit that other than the subtle core of fruit, lead, and cigar box, it's impossible to identify all of the various secondary and tertiary notes that multiply on the palate and continue into the lengthy, memorable finish. What a gracious, elegant, beautiful wine. 98+
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Deep, dark garnet with some minor clearing at the edges. Full, forward, fragrant & attractive nose of complex, developed & mature ripe fruit aromas of dark cherries, cassis, blackberries & plums with classic cigar box overtones of cedar wood & tobacco, pencil/graphite, leather, floral notes of violets, herbal notes of juniper & sage, some underbrush & green bell pepper notes with secondary notes of earthy, truffles, dark cocoa, roasted coffee, olives, dusty, spice notes of cardamom & peppercorns & minerals. Medium-full bodied with a very good concentration of silky smooth & polished textured, well balanced, well integrated, developed & mature, plush, ripe fruit flavors of dark cherries, black currants, blackberries & plums with spices, earthy, herbs, some cocoa, coffee & minerals. Long lingering smooth finish. Drinks quite well at present and appears to have the structure & fruit to hold onto its current plateau of development for a few more additional years although any further development is doubtful.
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Wine group dinner for Aniko at Yans China Bistro with Alex Yan doing the cooking. My #3 and Group #3. Lovely rich chocolate, dark fruit, and lead pencil, more of the same on the palate, touch soft, flat, and flabby, worst bottle ever tasted, medium body, long, long finish.
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Recorked 1994 (hidden on cork, no label). Fabulous showing. Deep color. Interesting aromas of black olive tapenade, cassis, blackberry and cedar. Medium to full bodied, rich and stylish. Tannins are evident but they are ripe and provide welcome structure. A great wine that lives up to its reputation.
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Shared by a friend. Liked this, a lot. A btl with good provenance. Progressing well, but this bottle doesn't show the complexity or allure of the best from this vintage. A treat for me given it's age and balance. But....treat, not life changing.
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1st Vivino Int'l chapter in Singapore (Sat. afternoon), Part-1 (Bok's place): After the last HB which some guessed was Cheval and proven wrong, many thought this was it. So so beautiful and amazing on the nose - cassis, graphite, cigar-box, some tobacco and berries. Wow, the amazement followed onto the palate - pure, silky texture, with layers and layers of red-dark fruits coupled with more notes of earth, cigar-box, truffles. Finished long, fresh, vibrant but elegant. A FG-beater in most cases. Would've been my wine of the afternoon if not for the Chave! Great!
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Fabulous example. Seems very youthful (and mid neck level) - but although not noted on the exterior of the bottle the cork is branded rebouchée au chateau 1993. Very puzzling. But the wine is bursting with fruit, blackberry, blueberry, maybe raspberry, hint of rose petal. Gorgeous bouquet. On the palate, intensely fruity, modest oak, integrated tannins, some secondary notes (dried herbs). Excellent structure, good acids and minerals.
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Pre Davos Wine Forum tasting (Zumikon, Switzerland): Ahhh. This is electric with a stalky, spicy, wonderfully green tobacco Pauillac nose. Mmm, the utterly seamless palate features cherry dancing together with ripe notes of soy and tobacco. This wine is deity-sent, just perfect. My desert island wine and a treat that nearly always bowls me over. This bottle was no exception. My WOTN.
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unpleasant nose right after opening, ok on the palate, but none of the rich flavors this wine is known for; decanted, after 2+ hours neutral nose, rather green on the palate; drinkable but a huge disappointment
Opened and slow oxed about 4 hours before dinner. Bought from a retailer in the past year. Mid shoulder fill, cork saturated and pushed out slightly. First of 3 bottles of this purchase.
Not decanted, but poured into glasses a bit early. As is often the case with older wines, the nose changed quite a bit over time. A little musty at first, but that blew off. Classic nose of cedar, cassis, old leather, mushrooms and damp earth. Smoothe, with a wonderful, lingering finish.
We have been fortunate to enjoy this wine several times. The best bottle was the only wine I have rated 100 in CT. This was not quite up to that bottle, but still a wonderful treat on Christmas Day. God bless us every one!
Update: had a half glass left at the end of the evening, put in a screw top half bottle, kept in fridge overnight and finished the next day. Still going strong, no noticeable drop off. Suggests that this might have at least a few good years left before it starts a slow decline.
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What an amazing bottle of Bordeaux. From the minute the cork is pulled, a staggering perfume of cassis, graphite, earth/tobacco, and more cassis hit the nose. The depth of the nose is equalled in the mouth where every tastebud is rocked with textbook Pauillac flavors. The finish seemingly never ends. This wine will last for ever, but is incredibly approachable now.
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I suspect this was not the best showing this wine is capable of. Solid, enjoyable, and easy to drink. But it lacked a 'wow factor' I would expect from a wine of this caliber. Chalk it up to the bottle. It's been a while since I've had this wine but my memories of it from the past are much more positive. This wine was a little softer than I'd have expected.
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A nose of blackberry and graphite. Palate is covered with light-citrus sour cherries. Wild berries, cedar, beef blood, forrest soil and a tiny tertiary green note. Acidity and fine grainy tannins - this has not hit its peak at an age of 32. A Pauillac juice that is at the same level of many first growth Bordeaux wines.
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Beautiful ruby-garnet color. Lots of tertiary notes on the nose, with earth and mushroom. Red fruit is still shining through. Perfectly balanced on the palate. Long finish. Fantastic. Did not decant.
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Qualitatively as good as the 1990 Chateau Margaux I had recently although more masculine in its aromatics. Brick red color. Earth, smoked meats, tobacco and saddle leather all in abundance on the nose. Could inhale this all night. The palate gave me goose bumps - fleshy and endless flavors of dried fruits, bacon and autumn leaves. Just a glorious bottle!
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A riveting example of Pauillac at its best. Picture silky, decadent textures, pure, ripe, sultry, polished, silky berries, complex aromas of fruit, truffles, Cuban Cigars and earth and you get the idea. The long, sensuous finish is the best of the experience.
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Another wow experience with this wine, which remains a benchmark Bordeaux for me. It's an incredible combination of power and elegance. There's great complexity here with layers of sweet red and dark fruited flavours, cedar, tobacco, graphite, earth, and more flamboyant herbal, spicy and truffled notes all coming together very seamlessly with both great intensity and finesse on the palate. The tannin feels very silky beneath the rich fruit that still is quite sappy and fresh, and the finish is remarkably long.
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Four great 82 BDX tonight, flighted together. Haut Brion was WOTN for me. Simply incredible, as always, and ridiculously enjoyable. A tie for #2: Margaux and Pichon Lalande. The Margaux was the most primary, and seems to have literally 25 years of life ahead of it. Relaxed a bit in the glass over an hour or so. The Pichon Lalande was in some respects the classiest of the group, and was terrific, but lost a little in the sexiness rating. The 82 Leoville Poyferre was terrific, and in most dinners might contend for WOTN, but tonight was a very high class last place. 82's of perfect provenance are such a pleasure.
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great riped Bx, still young, but I think now it is beginning to be at the top, dark fruits, elegant, concentration, pencil, cedar, mint and eucalyptus a little bit like heitz marthas vineyard, long aftertaste, nearly perfect 50+5+14+19+10
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Part of mini- vertical with the '86 & '90. Pretty ruby red. Decanted for 6 hours. Nose blossomed form red fruits to graphite, flint, grilled meats and an undertone of plum. Top notes echoed the nose while the finish had a silky chocolatey feel with more lead and sweet raspberries. Thank you Rob!
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Dark ruby color with a slight browning. Gorgeous nose of roasted nuts, black fruits, sweet tobacco and dark red spices. This bottle is quite firm on the palate and needed a good 2-hr. decant to show itself. Then rich smoky black fruits combine with deep flavors of tobacco, sweet but scorched earth, asparagus and sour cherries. A rather thick and voluminous wine with a silky, aged texture. The finish is quite complex with wonderful spice and earth notes, bitter chocolate and still some sour tannins. An extraordinary wine although the slight bitterness on the finish keeps this particular bottle from scoring higher.
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Les Nomades BYO Dinner (Les Nomades Chicago): I have had some slight bottle variation with this wine, but this was one of the better bottles. Consistent with prior experience. Wonderful gloss texture and beautiful silky mouthfeel. Long finish. Superb.
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decanted hour before consumed, was more youthful than expected but certainly time to drink it if in your cellar. simply delicious wine, had with shortribs and polenta--glad I have more!
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Wine with the NEXT Chicago Steak Dinner (NEXT Restaurant - Chicago IL): Open an hour+ before serving. One of the best showings i can recall for this wine. Lots of dense blackberry and currant with hints of cigarbox and dark roast coffee. Very balanced on palate with an overall fresh, vibrant mouth feel.
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Decanted about a half an hour. Te wine looks young. It has a dark red/purple core and faint rust at the edge. The nose is remarkable -- lots of wet bark, forest floor and damp earth. Soil and mushrooms waft out of the glass. The taste is focused. Fresh acidity. The mid-palate is an amalgam of the above-described earthy notes, cassis, fig, grilled bread, and tobacco. The flavor profile is focused and precise. It was elegant and balanced. The tannins are soft - almost fully resolved, but enough to leave a dry finish. Medium plus body. The wine has layers of complexity, but there are no distractions and competing notes. Each flavor component of the '82 Lalande compliments the other. This wine is in harmony. And oh, the finish! 45 seconds of lingering sous bois and pencil lead. Marvellous. My wife's review: "105 points. How can wine taste any better?"
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Drank in Bordeaux Thanks to Tom for supplying this wine. Quiet mature nose with forest floor, red fruits and cedar. Great complexity on the palate with a medium length. Lovely stuff.
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Red currant, forest floor, and Clove. On palate with sour cherry, blackberry, and light toast. Full body. Silky texture. Long finish. This still has some integrated subtle grainy tannins but would go for years and years in cellar. 96+
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Robert Parker has always given this wine sensational marks (98-100) and I can see why. Decanted and poured straight away it is much lighter in colour than the Cos d"Estournel 1982 that accompanied it and is stylistically at the opposite end of the spectrum. The nose is simply out of this world; gloriously ethereal and I don't recall ever having a claret with a bouquet its equal. This promised so much, but sadly on the palate it couldn't live up to the promise. Pichon Lalande is always a rather 'delicate' wine, stylish and fine-boned (like a porcelain tea cup) and this example is no exception, but there is now no hint of tannin and the fruit is a little dull albeit retaining wonderful balance and purity. I suspect this bottle is four or five years past its peak. It slips down remarkably smoothly, but has lost its magic. That's not to say you can't still appreciate the brilliance of this wine, but on this showing it's no longer at its peak. Estimated maturity: If I had any more of this, which I don't, I would be drinking it up over the next couple of years. Nothing is to be gained by keeping it.
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1982 Bordeaux dinner (The Grill Room at Capella Hotel Georgetown): Explosive nose of cassis, dark fruits, cedar, a hint of lead pencil, lavander and mushroom. Great example of the vintage and the chateau, intense ripe dark fruit and noticeable green note are nicely integrated to make the wine hedonistic yet fresh. This bottle showed the similar concentration and development as the 82 HB. Medium concentration, intense dark fruit, silky and nicely integrated tannins. This is perhaps the best and freshest example that I had. Jim mentioned the short finish and IMO, the perfect balance and airy palate may give that impression. Intense yet precise. This is a kind of wine that I would be happy to drink a whole bottle.
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Tried a bottle from a different case than the prior two. After two hours this blossomed into a sweeter, fuller, rounder wine. I'm splitting hairs at this point!
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Very similar to the last bottle, which I think was from the same case. Stunning purity and glossy texture. Perfect balance, but was subdued compared to the flavors of prior bottles. Still, I love this wine.
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Slight bricking at the rim. Wonderfully complex nose now dominated by secondary characteristics: cedar, leather, mushrooms and earth. Yet there is also some black cherry and other dark fruit. Smooooth. Palate has more fruit than the nose would suggest.
Great wine, maybe a step ahead of the bottle of this we had last year and a step behind the incredible 100 point experience with this wine 2 years ago. We are so lucky to be able to enjoy this wine.
From a bottle purchased on release, this bottle had a bottom neck fill. The wine had a deep red/purple center with a reddish orange rim. While this coloration might indicate it was fully mature, this is the same way the wine looked 10 - 15 years ago.
The first whiff of the nose immediately registered as a "Wow!" Great from the start, this wine only got better given a couple of hours of air. While the complexity defied description to some degree, I would note mocha, black cherry, soil, and led pencil. At the end, the nose started to add some zingy raspberry.
I have run into some bottle variation with this wine. However, it is almost always good. It just depends how good.
In the mouth, this bottle was extremely ripe and round. The balance was spectacular. On one hand it was fruity and on the other it is quite dry and serious. You think it is super ripe but this feature is balanced by attractive rounded tannins and acids that are buried in fruit.
Again, it is easy to suspect this wine is fully mature because it is so refined and drinkable. However, my opinion is that this wine will remain great for decades. A special wine, a special bottle.
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Bottle from different source than last year's. That was marvelous. Lighten ruby color, savory, salty, crushed fruits nose straight from the bottle without decanting, freshness and powerful first mouth-fill. Rest for 3hours in the bottle, still ripen fruits, cedar nose, melted tannins but faded faster than my previous sample (95pts). Structure and complexity were average, so as the finish.
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1980's Bordeaux Dinner (Arlington Club, NY): Almost no rim. Bloody meat, iodine, medicinal, gamey and carnal on the nose. Once again, more carnal than a sin on the savory palate. Tannins are almost unnoticeable. Texture is silky smooth. Finish is long, very long. Great effort.
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Palate: Power, dark fruits, cigar box and cardamon with a pleasant touch of peppercorns.
This was tasted alongside a '71 Rinaldi Barolo and a 1983 Mouton. This bottle was all about power and and strength. It was extremely masculine, but very well made. This could last another 30 years, easily, without starting to decline. A great wine! A
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Pichon de Lalande has NEVER disappointed. The amber color and the mature fruit has always made this wine amazing. Light saddle leather with subtle red fruit makes this THE go to Wine if you have the opportunity All Experts say it is time to drink. I believe This PichonLaLande is at a peak that will last another 7-10 yrs. Amazing. No need to over analyzes a Classic dkl
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It's impossible not to like this wine. Very pretty bright red color. This one was purchased on original release and had a low neck level. The aroma is quite floral, especially from my sample glass left out for several hours. Beautiful texture, medium weight, clean finish; the definition of "round" as applied to wine. It seems to have plenty of life for the foreseeable future.
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Incredible. Even better than the bottle I had last year which I scored 98. I cannot imagine a wine better than this. There are lots of fine, soft tannins that promise this wine will last for decades to come. Wow!
50+5+15+20+10=100
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Excellent blackish color. Perfect nose of roasted nuts, black fruits and earth with Pauillac minerals. Surprisingly, this well-stored bottle didn't really begin to sing until it was in the decanter for 3+ hours! Rich and intense at first with great earth and black rasberry flavors with a dry tannic grip on the finish. Then after 3 hours, the wine began to achieve a silky purity as if it calmed down and entered a zen-like meditative state. Then the complexity on the finish showed up with incredible flavors of black licorice, spicebox and sweet earth. A great wine that obviously needs air to strut its stuff.
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Magnum Perfect bottle. Very young colour for its age.
Magnificent nose!! Perfection! This wine has everything you want from an aged Bordeaux! Leather, coffee, herbs, cigarrbox, meat, pencil - graphite and dark fruit from cassis and blackberry.
Perfection on the palate! Totally balanced and seamless :-) Still lots of fruit. Young and virile with lots of energy! Marvelous length! +90 sec!
A beauty like Jayne Mansfield in 1958 :-)
My dear friend said "This is one of the best wines I've ever tried ... probably the best one!" And my friend have tried many, many, many of the Big Guns!
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Just found my notes from last spring's tasting. Purchased in 2012 from HDH, top shoulder fill, soft cork but no overt signs of leakage. Slow-oxed for 3 hours. Bright red core, moderate bricking at rim. Flowers, leather, earth, cherry and cassis make for a very complex fragrant nose. Medium body, silky smooth palate feel, complex flavors follow the nose, each one fading into and out of prominence and trading back and forth with each taste. Beautiful balance, tannins fully resolved, so round and complete, does a slow lingering fade on the back palate and finish. Should continue to drink well for years. A fantastic wine, extraordinary!
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Showing a color with more bricking than it should, the aromatics offered intense scents of cedar wood, cassis, forest floor, tobacco and leafs. Silky, plush and polished, there are no hard edges to this sensuous expression of Pauillac. However, the wine was slightly more advanced than other bottles tasted recently.
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Tasted at a horizontal of 1982 Bordeaux first and second growths, this wine held its own as one of the top wines of the event. Only a Latour and a Cheval Blanc outdid this classic, which remains one of the very best wines of this remarkable vintage. Lush, ripe, opulent fruit contrasted with the more austere, if more refined and precise, few top first growths that ever so slightly nudged it aside. Perhaps the freshness can be attributed to the predominance of Merlot, giving a roundness, opulence and soft tannins compared with the others, with a higher percentage of Cabernet in the blend. One of Robert Parker's great talents is to at times succinctly and eloquently hit the nail on the head in describing a wine. I feel he did so beautifully in one of his more recent revisitations of this wine and reaffirmation of his 100-point rating: "One of the monumental wines of the last century is the 1982 Pichon Lalande. Since bottling, it has flirted with perfection...." I could not put it any better. If only Pichon Lalande had kept up this incredible level of winemaking. A truly superb and fascinating wine.
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Sending Josh off to the 'burbs (l'Artusi, NYC): Very deep blood, bricking. Very, VERY Pichon Lalande nose: bell pepper, cedar cigar box, iron filings, burning fireplace embers; a lot of chalk, perhaps a bit too chalky for my taste. The palate is big and dense, very rich; insanely cashmere smooth and velvety. Tannic yet, with precise acidity. Flavors of plum, deep black cherry, fig, cedar. This is still too young for me. Excellent length with medium to full body. Hold. 10-20 years from ready. Fantastic, but young.
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Darn. This is the first disappointing bottle of this for me. It really wasn't bad just not super. The fruit was red but it was dried out and the wine was more cedar-like than anything else. After a little oxygen for about a day, it became drinkable, but it was never a standout. I was not compelled to finish the bottle. I have no clue as to this bottle's provenance.
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Too much cedar for my taste. Not sure what all the fuss is about. Perhaps more time, maybe not enough time in the decanter. No doubt good wine, but now worth the parker pumped up price
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Wine Group Bordeaux Tasting, first place. Almost perfect this evening, bright raspberry character on the nose and palate, hints of cedar and red cherry fuit and a touch of herbs on the palate, lovely and delicious to taste, medium/long finish, my favorite this night by far, at its peak, enjoy the next eight years.
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Drank over 5 hours. Did not decant. Another great bottle from a different case. This one was not as full in the mouth or as silky as those in my other notes. Nose took a while to get going, flavor profile was consistent with past bottles, but the texture and fullness weren't as wonderful. Still a phenomenal bottle with a long long finish.
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Fabulous in all aspects. Half-hour decanting and the wine blossomed. At the current price, we are not likely to buy more. Holding on the other 2 bottles for now.
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Another beautiful bottle. Thanksgiving night, done with turkey, time for steak and lamb chops. Had 82, 83 and 86 Pich's side by each. All very different but could identify all as Pichon Lalande. Not much of even a hint of brown on any of the 3. All perfectly stored, decanted and served. Fruit still bright in 82 and 83, 86 still a bit on the tight side. Great examples of Bordeaux. None of the 3 showing signs of down sliding. But 82 and 83 are probably at peak, 86 still some time left to hit it's peak.
Robust for it's age, yet maintained the classic silkiness and sweetness of plum jam and sweet black fruits. Perfect balance long finish. A wine at it's prime, but will last a decade or more.
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1982 Pichon Lalande remains the most consistent and stunning representative of the vintage. If you’re seeking opulent, sexy, lush, silky textures, complex aromas with truffles, forest floor, cassis, blackberry, olives and cigar box with a finish that lasts close to a minute, this is the wine to buy. From the day this majestic elixir was bottled, some tasters claimed it would not last. Not only has it lasted, it continues to improve.
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I haven't had this wine in years and I'm happy to see it hasn't long a step. It was the last bottle in my cellar, with a VTS fill level and the cork was mostly saturated...it poured with a deep ruby color.
It took some time for the aromas to emerge and they weren't overwhelming but there was plum, cedar and maybe a whiff of coffee. But when you sip this it comes alive...it's a party in your mouth! A sweet entry that quickly coats your tongue with no hard edges, it's lush with beautiful precision and enough acid and complexity that it sparkles. THIS is what wine is supposed to taste like...a little dark fruit mixed in with a curranty/raspberry tinge, some jamminess and maybe some lychee for lift.
Can't say enough good things about this, it's probably my favorite 82. For my taste I'd rate it a notch above Mouton & Gruaud Larose, and two above Latour, La Mission, L'Evangile and La Tour Haut Brion
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Canlis celebration to welcome Dan Polivy (Seattle, WA): There is 1982 Pichon and there is 1982 Pichon. This was a seriously great example. An utterly compelling nose with all of that stalky tobacco intermixed with gloriously ripe and roasted plums. The palate is pure silk and everything I want from great Bordeaux. This wine has lost a little weight over the past decade, but it makes up for it with glorious complexity.
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1982 Bordeaux at Crabtree Kittle House (Chappaqua, NY): Wow! This certainly lives up to the hype. It's incredibly fragrant, flamboyant and amazingly complex with layers of rich fruit, developed earthy, tobacco and earthy elements, and more exotic spicy, lavender and green herbal notes coming together seamlessly in a powerful yet very finessed whole. The balance is flawless; the scent's hard to move away from and the flavours resonate long after each sip. Utterly stunning wine.
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This was a fantastic wine. Balanced, harmonious, luscious and rich. It still has lots of fine tannins that promise many more years of life and probably some improvement in the future from what is already pretty perfect. Smoke and tobacco mix with ripe fruit scents from blue and black berries. Sensuous and hedonistic (I seldom use that word) in the mouth. It lingers in the mouth for a long, long time.
50+5+14+19+10=98
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1982 Bordeaux (Crabtree Kittle House): Oh wow. Knockout nose, with black fruit, curry spice, cigar, smoked earth. Richer than the Lynch with complex cassis, chocolate, that exotic spice flavor, and amazing length. The second time I've had this wine in two weeks (it's a tough life, I know), and this showed differently, more evolved, less primary, not as plush or rich, without the same viscosity and power but with more acid, more savory, more complex, more elegant, better length, equally fantastic. I think the other bottle still had a ways to go while this one is fully at peak. Easy choice as WOTN for everyone. Spectacular.
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I had great expectations for this bottle, but was disappointed. While it did get a little life after an hour or in decanter and showed nice faded fruit and tobacco, this bottle was clearly past it's prime.
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This was the piece de resistance of my 30th birthday, and unfortunately by the time we got to it I was too drunk to fully appreciate it. I remember impressively pure, rich blackcurrant fruit complemented by cocoa and herbs, and a soft, caressing mouthfeel, with a rare combination of richness and elegance. I wish I could say more, but I don't think I can afford another bottle! :(
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KYD #1.4: Huge intensity on the nose and just packed with pine needles and grass with a hint of farts and green bell-pepper. Quite developed nose but still a lovely freshness. Young and intense palate with a lovely spicy structure with plenty of acidity. Some pine needles and cedar coming through in the quite complex spicyness. Very juicy and fresh and a huge acidity but still very easy to drink. An elegant style but still a huge wine!
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Dan turns 30, We drink 82s (Keens Steakhouse): Oh wow. Still dark, midnight color, still opaque. Huge nose of cassis and plums and blackberries, florals, molasses. With air the florals fade and and a spicy, curryish cigar note emerges that was almost vosne-like in its aisan spice elements. In the mouth the wine has incredible richness and texture, like a down pillow drenched in black fruit. There's still some chewy tannin but the tannin is so soft and refined and buried by the fruit that you hardly notice it, and wine amazingly manages to be as rich and soft as it is while maintaining a sense of structure and poise -- I've never had a wine this rich that wasn't also overly heavy. If i'm quibbbling I'd note that the finish wasn't quite as long as I might have expected, but that's picking nits. Utterly fantastic.
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1.5L Magnum. I am not a silver-tongued wine writer, but I can say that this is still a wonderful wine. The tannins are gone. It is a voluptuous, fruity, feminine Bordeaux. There is at least 5 years left to go and perhaps 10. It was as dark in color as a 2002 Domaine Jacques Prieur Clos Vougeot we had with it. This is still my "go to" special occasion bottle and will be for a long while.
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No flaws. No sediement. Major rim variation. Beautiful nose of red fruit. Classic old world. No tannins. low alcohol. Medium finish. Just perfect. At back end of window. But, still I would think 5-10 years left in bottle. beautiful.
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The fill was well into the neck and the cork was incredibly sound; an impeccably stored bottle that looked more like a 30 month vs 30 year old wine. Aromas of lilly, fennel, black truffle, plum, cassis and briar patch; literally perfect on the nose. Medium-bodied, with a silky and velvety texture, great balance and depth, with perfect focus and grip on the long and incredibly complex finish. A perfect wine.
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Alcohol :: NA PnP. Level into neck and dark garnet core, promising condition. The nose was display some funky note and bouquet was pretty soft but this is not uncommon for the very first pour from such an old wine. This classic juice continues to shape up in the glass and display absolutely seductive bouquet of mint, leather, truffle with endless layer of blackcurrant, dried fig, plum and floral notes. Matured and quite dominant with secondary note yet the liveliness is truly impressive. Medium - full bodied, one of the silkiest, elegance sensation ever, she caresses the palate brilliantly, with enormous depth and seductive notes of sweet dark fruits, leather and filled with inner perfume. A little bit of tannin grips for excellent presence too. She continues to grow in the mouth with endless finished, ethereal and fine. Long life ahead. Bow!
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Smoke, tobacco, cigar box, cassis, wet earth, truffle, spice and forest floor pop from the glass the moment the wine is poured. The real fireworks start with the luxurious, glycerin filled, sensuous, silk and velvet textures. Layers of opulent, polished perfectly ripe dark berries remain on your palate for close to 60 seconds. If you want to know why people spend big money on Bordeaux, this is the wine to experience.
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Decanted but started drinking immediately. Beautiful fruit with impeccable balance, long finish. The fruit diminished quite a bit after about two hours - I would recommend drinking fairly soon after opening.
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Part of a 6 bottle vertical: 76, 82, 89, 90, 95, 98. No doubt a class above the other 5 bottles although 90 put on quite a show as well. Liked both these 2 vintages best. 89 had great aromatics but not as pleasing when drank. 76 was still enjoyable with some aromatics and very smooth palate. 95 still too young and powerful, need a long decant. 98 good aromatics but otherwise did not gave much.
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Bordeaux night at Matt's (with wives) (Matt's house): For me this lived up to the hype. Worried at first due the completely soaked cork, but it turned out to be a perfect specimen with a dark purple color and clear rim. Insane depth on the nose of soft smelly cheese, green olive tapenade, earthy dampness, and slight pencil lead. Intoxicating and otherworldly. Super fresh and almost austere at first, this put on considerable weight in the glass and was truly singing after four hours. Finished long with more green olives and stewed berries.
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From 5 liter; the nose was classic Bordeaux lead pencils, but the nose is the best aspect of this wine because it lacks heart, there is no fruit. Seems there is big bottle variation in this wine given others comments.
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dinner @ ann colgin's home. majesterial, and the clear WOTN for me. i suppose it's all about provenance as i see opinions of this all over the board. direct from the winery, and superb bottle preperation = near perfect performance. i don't have enough experience to tell anyone to drink or hold, but it's hard for me to believe this will get better to my palate. this bottle was almost youthful, and what was interesting is that it had a little of all three stages of development overlapping each other. that's a very rare occurrence in my experience.
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Another great bottle of this wine. Decanted and drank over 3 hours. Full, rich, round, leather, lead pencil, some mint and deep dark fruit and earth on the palate. Incredibly smooth and a long finish that just glides for minutes. Probably my favorite Bordeaux.
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Had a bottle in January that was marvelous. Pulled a bottle from same case tonight and could not have been more disappointed. Strong brick color. Almost no fruit. Decanted for two hours to no avail. While not stewed, nothing positive to note.
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Bottle in very good shape, haven't had this in a while so a nice surprise that it delivered yet again, in no way does it seem to be past its peak or tired, just full on opulence.
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1982 Bordeaux at 30 years courtesy of Mark Taylor (Atlanta, GA): One sniff and I wrote "sultry - PL" in my notes. This is my desert island wine, and it almost never disappoints. Maybe a touch of seawater on the nose but then such depth on the silky, luscious and full palate. An easy pick and my favorite of the flight.
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I wouldn't call it "monumental 100 pointer" Parker called it. Not bad wine, but not that much better than it's "bastard" sibling. If I didn't know the wine was given 100 points, I'd never guessed it on my own.
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BIG nose, so smooth! lots of fruit still left despite the age, the balance is beyond belief. the finish is long, dazzling and 60+ seconds. sweet cassis, dark fruits, just enough acidity and a finish that tingles the tongue. everything you could ever want. best bordeaux i've ever had. my wife found some soft fruits, age and finesse was very apparent, spice box and cigar box.
Simply stunning. Just starting to brick. Great complexity and strong fruit with restraint and a touch of that french funk. Great french oak. Was wonderful at open and improved over 3 hours. At around the 5 hour it faded fast, so you may want minimize a long decant. PDQ96
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Super Bowl 2012 (Roswell, GA): Copper rim with a deep core. Fat and sweet with juicy, red fruit and some brown sugar. Utterly silky and despite the low pH could drink & smell this wine all day long. I also called it blind- boo yah.
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Wow this was a stellar wine! A good friend of mine served me this wine blind. It had such a complex nose of leather, leadpencil, the scent of a forest in the autumn, some roasted tones etc... In the mouth it was very smooth, and filled with very fine fruit... and oh so complex. I guessed it to be a bordeaux from the 80's and probably a pauillac. The wine is perfectly mature now, and i do not think it will benefit from more cellaring.
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One of the stars in an all-82 tasting. Fruit still present and consistent. Only slight rust around the rim. Terrific legs, nose, finish. Deserves to be included in the list of 82's that continue to be wonderful. Held its own against the first growths.
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1982 Bordeaux First Growth (and Comparable) Dinner (Carlos - Highwood, IL): Served single blind with other 82 Super Seconds. Ripe lush black fruit aromas with intense spice. Very robust blackberry and currant flavors. Well integrated tannins with moderate acidity. Lots of power on finish, to me this showed a trace more ripe character than I'd prefer, but most people at the table didn't find that at all.
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Tasted blind, this wine displayed a red/purple center with a touch of orange at the rim. The medium intensity nose of black cherries, brown spice, soil, and some violets was attractive.
Not surprisingly, this wine needed over 3 hours of decanter time to blow off the mustiness and show its best. The mouth was rich and ripe with solid acidity and great length. I would say this wine is just coming into its zone and will still probably improve. However, it is certainly enjoyable now with adequate air.
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This was not a perfect bottle. So, please do not think this is indicative of well stored examples. There were no visual clues that the wine would be less than stellar. In the nose, along with smoke, truffle, cassis, cedar and spice, red fruit aromas became apparent as well. Plush in texture, but lacking the richness and opulence found in better examples, the wine ended with a touch of tart flavors. Another example of only good bottles and no great wines.
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It had a gorgeous perfume of smoke, cedar, violets, cassis, liquorice and leather. In the mouth there were no hard edges and waves of creamy, perfumed fruits lapped around the gums. Tannins and acidity feel like they’ve been folded into all of the plush fruits but it has great vibrancy and precision.
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Drank from magnum. Decanted one hour. Shockingly youthful in glass, with no bricking. Nose of dark fruits, with tobacco, smoke and truffles. Black cherries on the palate, with tobbaco leaf, plums, currants, smoke, cedar and espresso. Long, long finish. Elegant and balanced, with a velvety mouthfeel. Can a wine be sexy? Thank you, Peter, for the surprise of a lifetime.
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Tasted non blind. Opened and decanted for sediment before serving immediately. Followed over about an hour.
Garnet color in the glass, clear looking throughout with just a little bit of bricking. Stunning nose of briar patch, rose petals, herbs du Provence and tobacco taking on secondary and tertiary aromas with air of caramel, cinnamon, potpourri and a hint of currant. Flavors of berries, cherries, raspberries, plums and currants. Medium acidity, resolved tannins, full bodied. Drink now, might hold for some time to come but seems to be at the sweet spot or perhaps a hair past.
Garnet in the glass with some distinct bricking color. The nose is elegant: truffle, cassis, terroir, cassis, hint of smoke. On the palate, the wine lives up to the reputation of the vintage and chateaux. Vevety smooth with just enough acidity. The palate is complex and refined with layers of aged dark fruit, cassis, floral notes, a hint of terroir, just a hint of smoke. The initial taste was a pop and pour. But as I left the full glass to air over the course of 60 minutes, the wine continued to evolve and expand. Glorious finish.
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One of the greatest wines I've enjoyed. drunk at our 32nd anniversary dinner from restaurant cellar. Opened and tasted about an hour before dinner and not decanted. Incredible, soaring nose of beguiling complexity: cassis, red fruit, earth, smoke tobacco, it seems futile to list all the elements of such an enchanting nose. Reminds me of the old MASH line, "There aren't enough Os in smoooothe." A master of the Bordeaux trick of being intense on the palate while feeling light and perfectly balanced in the mouth. The definition of elegance. This is why we cellar wines. No young wine can offer this sensational combination of complexity, elegance and both hedonistic and intellectual appeal.
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The fill was well into the neck and the cork was pristine. The sommelier at Jean Georges opened, but did not decant, about 1 hour prior to service. A ruby red core with no amber. Aromas of plums, cassis, and fennel; further airing revealed notes of truffle and earth. Medium bodied, with a velvety texture, an incredible sense of expansiveness, great depth, balance and complexity. The finish lasted for well over a minute! As an aside, I think this wine would have once again merited a 100 point score, but the dining room at Jean Georges was at least 80 degrees tonight, and the wine quickly warmed from cellar temperature (I brought it and paid corkage) to a temperature that was not ideal. In hindsight, I should have asked them to stick the bottle in an ice bucket!
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Arrived late at a tasting and wine had already been poured and waiting. Aromatics was amazingly rich, complex and pleasing, makes you want to taste the wine right away, and it was soooooo good, could not put it down and finished the glass way too quickly, meanwhile, the bottle is gone! I still wanted more! Loved this vintage. my WOTN out of 5 bottles.
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Showing currants, raspberries, smoked meats, dried flowers, fresh figs, graphite, cranberries, cherries, cocoa powder, tobacco/cigar box and fresh roasted coffee. The color was beautiful and the tannins and acidity were wonderfully balanced.
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Beautiful aromas of cassis, rich tobacco, leather, black tea, venison, dried roses, and dark berries that just keep coming at you in waves. It's Like you're surfing in paradise and the next wave is better than the last with no ebb in sight. There is a sweet spiciness on the palate as well as loads of gobs of tobacco, dark cherries, cassis, leather, cedar, dried flowers. Perfect balance. Elegant, pure, and oh so long... With each taste you contemplate and discover something new and wait until it feels right to go in again.. This is a show stopper..
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Leather, tobacco, cassis, underbrush and earth. Big, silky, velvety, bitter sweet dark choc, capsicums. Full and round and long finish. Mascular wine vs the lafleur de gay 1990 which is more akin to what my palate craves in a wine. This is a great Parker wine no doubt, but lacks the elegance and finese which I absolutely dig in a great wine. A very good wine which I believe can go for 5-10 years. When reminiscing the dinner just 4 days back a few times, I find myself lowering the score on this wine. Could be the expectation i had from a 100pt RP wine, or to the reputation that preceded it. And I found myself thinking more about the Lafleur de gay.
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Alex's Bachelor's Party (Imperial Treasure Super Peking Duck, Paragon): Absolutely incredible, one of the very best Bordeaux I have had the privilege of drinking, and unlike a painfully young bottle 1982 Mouton a little while back, quite at peak and a supreme pleasure to drink. This was my favourite wine of the night, just edging out Alex's two brilliant whites. On first blush, this was clearly different from the 1990 Fleur de Gay that we served alongside, a more masculine wine to the Pomerol's feminine softness, yet somehow still with a sense of finesse and elegance that suggested left-bank but not quite so - our suspicions shifted to Lalande with that start. A bit of air, a bit of time, and wow, what a bouquet this had. It showed tobacco, capsicum, pure cassis and stewed tea leaves, a tiny hint of sweet spice - a dropdead gorgeous nose, full of bright, fragrant aromas and complex, earthy undercurrants. On the other hand, the palate was intensely smoky at first, with a whiff of cigar smoke filling the mouth on the attack. As that wafted away, it was quickly replaced with some sweet and absolutely delicious cassis and plum flavours, playing on a background of earth, forest floor and tobacco leaf. The fruit had a deliciously voluptuous ripeness to it that was not quite classic left-bank, a warm-year type of yumminess. Make no mistake though, the wine was perfectly balanced for all that voluptouness. It had beautifully layered depth, but was still always pure, clear, with a wonderful First Growth-like transperancy matched by beautifully integrated acidity that gave the wine a lovely freshness. We all thought it was a Pauillac from its sense of strength and structure - this was a wine with superb symmetry, yet somehow, it was symmetry in a more elegant, feminine shape, not quite a Mouton, Lafite or Latour, or even a Baron - it was definitely be a Lalande then, and a top-notch one at that. To top it all off, it had a long, long, long finish with waves of cassis, plums and tobacco leaf. Not a classic Bordeaux maybe, but this was a great, great wine, and when paired with our roasted lamb shoulder with drips of mint jelly, absolutely nuts, sending all sorts of taste receptors tingling like crazy on the palate. This was a pairing so perfect it beggars description. What a way to end the reds. An '82 Lalande, at peak, and crazy good.
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nose: absolutely sublime and moment stopping nose that is just sickly deep and guided more by finesse and balance than raw power. Glorious and supremely polished tones of tobacco, cedar, dark berry tones, violets, roses, bits of game tones, dark red fruits, and cassis all occur over the course of the wine being open. It was ever changing, but it was always great and only got better and deeper
taste: this was like pure satin on the palate with sexy and drop dead gorgeous medium/full bodied tones of cassis, dark red fruits, tobacco, cedar, roses, venison and all sorts of floral tones. There is such a refined nature to the tones and the tannins still show themselves as well along with medium acidity that provides this with a real beautiful backbone
overall: there's so much to say, and yet almost nothing to say other than this was everything it was supposed to be. It received a 3 hr decant and was then slowly drunk over the course of dinner. This was beautiful from the outset, but after it had taken on a good amount of air was it firing on every single cylinder. There was almost no real bricking on this, though it was a more claret color. This wine can only go on for years without any worry whatsoever
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Dad's 60th birthday. Fantastic wine!! Smoky, earthy nose at first, evolving into violets, tomatoes, currants and hints of berries. Silky smooth on the palate, wine just "slipped" down my throat.... and the finish, my God!! I can still feel the after taste a minute after I swallowed, great stuff!! Still a bit of tannins, and a tiny bit worse than the bottle I had a couple years ago, can't say what is missing hence the 99 pt instead of perfect score, looking forward to trying my next bottle.
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My first time with this wine and i am so impressed. Ive been a fan of 85,86,88,89 but have not had the 82. Opened and drank over a two hour period. Cork was soaked through and fill was base neck. A smokey, beefy nose at first which turned sweeter with notes of violet over time. On the palate a classic pauliac but was was so striking was the texture. Nothing out of place. Full and creamy and a finish lasting for 60sec. Look forward to more.
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When this wine fires, as it did tonight, it is one of the greatest wines to drink in this decade. Beyond most first growths I've had. The purest example of the glories of aged Bordeaux.
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Medium dark red, slightly pale-edged; young appearance. Stunning aromatics of cigar box, menthol, lead pencil, blackberry, leather. Medium-low tannin, medium acidity. Palate is dense and supple, with a silky texture. Flavors are as rich as I have had from Bordeaux. Finishes with repeated, sustained waves of leathery fruit and acids - wonderful. Bottle #3 of four.
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I brought this to our dinner at Meadowood; the sommelier opened it for us about an hour before service, but did not decant. This was another pristine bottle, with a fill well into the neck and a fantastic cork. A lovely ruby-red core, with a hint of garnet at the rim. Extremely outgoing on the bouquet, with complex and exotic aromas of cedary black fruits, lilly, truffle and roasted herbs. Equally impressive on the palate, with a lush and round texture, stunning depth of flavor, perfect balance, and a long, complex, and elegant finish. For me, this is a profound wine, and perfect in every way!
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Wines Drwine Would Hate (Nopa (SF)): Purchased on release and opened by a very generous friend. Classical cedar, cigar box, lead pencil Pauillac aromas. Extraordinarily well balanced in the mouth with fruit (not oak) sweetness married to firm acids and held in place by a delicate framework of tannin. Medium density at most, so there is no sense of weight, yet this wine is utterly authoritative, with a long, clear-as-a-bell finish. The expression "transcends the vintage" usually means a great success from a weak year. Here, it means that none of the limiting characteristics of '82 (e.g., impenetrable concentration, extraction and density) impair the experience. One of the best Pichons I've ever had the pleasure to drink. P.S. - When leaving this bottle to try our last sips of the Pommard, I commented that the contrast between the two wines vividly illustrated the difference in social character of Burgundy vs. Bordeaux. More on that subject another time?
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Pop 'n pour - consumed over about 2 hours. Absolutely fabulous. Explosive cedar, leather, and kirsch on the nose. On the palate, fresh and vibrant, completely balanced, with gorgeous spicy fruit and layers of leather, cedar, caramel, and a bunch of other pleasing flavors that I couldn't immediately identify. Silky mouthfeel with almost fully resolved sweet soft tannins and a long, delicious finish. Seems to be peaking right now. Good provenance on this bottle. Drunk alongside the 1982 Château Gruaud Larose, which was also wonderful, but not quite as good as this bottle. Had a bottle of the 1981 about a month ago and this is in a different league -- really illustrates the difference between a mediocre vintage and a great one.
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Goedhuis Pichon Lalande Tasting & Dinner (Hibiscus Restaurant, London): First magnum: Red fruits on the nose, raspberries and strawberries. Colour somewhat opaque, even cloudy. Some alcohol to the taste, lead pencil & cigar in the background, but subdued. A lot going on here. But in the end a little bitter. Not wholly a pleasant wine. (88-90) Second magnum: No red fruits. Very much more serious. Intense colour, and brighter. Quite a lot of alcohol on nose. This wine is in a different league. Much richer. Quite thrilling. (95 for this magnum) [Thomas Do Chi Nam: A very famous Pichon Lalande Vintage, a Parker 100 point wine.]
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I've probably consumed 3-4 cases of this wine over the years and it has been wonderful to drink at every stage of its life. However, I must say that right now it is at such a plateau of perfection that of all the older claret I have the privilege to drink, this bottle tonight left me speechless. Perhaps not since I consumed a perfect bottle of '59 La Miss some years ago, I simply cannot find anything that is missing from this wine. So perfectly balanced with hints of black fruits with this incomparable texture of liquid graphite and that lovely peanuty quality of aged Pauillac. The finish is so gloriously smooth and complex. I've only given an handful of wines a 100 rating over the years but by a process of elimination, I can't give this perfect example of this wine anything less.
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81;58. Perfect looking bottle with perfect fill. Extremely light and mature looking but beautiful, clean, clear and intense. Classic mature Bordeaux nose but with intense high fruit. On palate it again has the classic Bordeaux but with a more intense, spicy fruit. Long, long aftertaste. This is consistently my favourite 82 Bordeaux.
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Blind, in a v diverse tasting. There’s dazzling light at the rim, but the nose is initially restrained. A clean variant of the classic mushroom which suggests Bordeaux. Faint old socks, sweet red cherry, eucalyptus. Then on to some disappointment with a palate that was fluffy compared to the linear structures of the preceding 1990 Burg. More red cherry, menthol and distinct grilled red pepper. This is gentle and balanced, and I feel it’s a vintage thing rather than age: classic Bordeaux tannins don’t deliver this. Then the finish: now we’re going somewhere. Red pepper, then textural, divine coffee grinds, raised and vitalised by cedar. DM reveals the wine and explains that it was decanted 4.5 hours before and has yielded into his preferred style: Claret as “just a nice gentle drinking wine”. I got a splash more, which I sent around the table to share those amazing finish characteristics which were by now alive in the aroma. It nearly got back to me before DM innocently drained it. Three final drops from the bottle were still able to do most of the same trick. Ended with one tiny flicker of dog poo. What would I have rated if drinking a bottle? Maybe it could have been served better (less air). I don’t think it has the complete set of components for me though: rather understated in flavour and especially in structure. 95-96 with that hypothetical bottle at home? 94 at the tasting. It has balance of a sort, so I’m sure it will last for another decade. Increasingly as I write this I’m realising that it (and to some extent ripe, low-acid Bordeaux in general), is not for me.
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A superb showing of this already legendary wine. The color showed no signs of bricking. Amazingly fresh red in color. Aromas: Young and lively at first, settled with time into a classic, textbook, Bordeaux nose. Beautifully balanced and absolutely seamless on the palate. Looooong finish. A superb showing from this bottle, we followed it for hours in glass. Solidly in its drinking window, it has years of life ahead of it. Stunning
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-Bordeaux *nearing* apogee! So incredible! The color is of crystalline rubies. The maturing nose has soil, dry fall leaves that were just wetted, lavender (sweet though, not volatile), soft dark cherries, claret nuanced and layered. So few wines ever have this taste. What can I say, it's a Bordeaux of epic proportions. Dark cherries and dark currants, fullish. Not too structured or powerful, but long as days. For its age, it is quite lively and fresh. I love Bordeaux when it gets to this point, but it is also hard to describe. Dark and red fruits that are not young, but nowhere near decaying. Earth and aged or decaying leaf and tobacco, but not decayed, just aged. Its funny, I think to myself that 1982 was a "modern" vintage, but man do I wish more wines were made like this one. 99
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Colto nella sua maturità perfetta, meglio di quello bevuto qualche settimana fa. Il naso è carnoso, sensuale, con tocchi profondi di tabacco, molto carico e speziato. La bocca è quasi perfetta, tannino molto ben bilanciato e presente, bella lunghezza
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The best bottles are showy, opulent and decadent. This bottle was close to the level found in the best bottles. Tobacco, plums, prunes, cedar, truffle and blackberry started off the perfume. In the mouth, wonderful layers of ripe, cassis, blackberry and black cherry fill your palate with textures akin to satin and silk. This elegant, polished, concentrated and intense wine is the thinking man’s sex bomb!
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Naso subito esplosivo di spezie (pepe), con bel tabacco scuro e note piraziniche ma leggere. Naso molto intrigante e suadente. Bell'inizio bocca ma finale piü scarico. Poco rotondo in bocca. Al naso poi escono note di sottobosco molto buone. Dopo esce il caffè di quelli buoni.
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Lovely nose of green pepper, cedar and tobacco, more of the same on the palate, luscious tasting, almost too much green pepper for me. touch of bitterness on the long finish. Third place of seven 1982 Bordeaux tasted.
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Really an extraordinarily good bottle of wine. Captivating beguiling nose of cedar, red fruit, leather and earth. Soft opulent palate with tannions mostly resolved. Still plenty of fruit. Minerally earthy finish. Not tired at all.
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Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande Vertical Dinner (The Marine Room, La Jolla, California): This bottle was recently procured from auction by one of the attendees (for this tasting). It showed an appropriate deep red/garnet robe and a moderately intense nose, but I suspect that at some point in its history it was heat-damaged. Not entirely unpleasant, with red currant, mushroom and smoke aromas on the nose, there was a note of stewed tomato in the background on both the nose and palate. With medium acidity and soft residual tannins, the middle faded and the finish was medium-length at best. Having tasted this wine several times over the past 25 years, it did not seem to be where I would expect. This underscores the saying that, with older vintages such as this, there are no good wines, only good bottles.
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HArd for me to give a score higher than this to anything. Had this with a rare combination of 2000 DRC Richebourg and Romanee St. Vivant and a 2001 Latche. Being the Burgundy loer that I am, I thought this would be a poor sister. Unbelievable, amny of the comments have it right. Rich, sweet, smooth and supple. Perhaps one of my favorite 1982. Power and lots of life left, with wonderful silky tannins. Despite it's secong classe status, all of the power and luxury of first growths. Dark berries, deep color accross the glass. Way better than the 83, just a tie me up and spank me wine. WOW WOW WOW!
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Yet another brilliant example of this much lauded wine. Tremendously fruity (cherry, blueberry, strawberry, blackberry) but the sweet tannins and adequate acids let you know this is not some simple fruit bomb. Irresistible and "hedonistic." The only question is how long it will last.
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From 375. I've never found this wine to be as other-worldly as the general consensus. It's very good, and this was a great bottle, but heck, I'd drink the 1983 just as readily, and at a third the price.
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This was one of the best examples of this luscious but somewhat variable wine, purchased from Premier Cru many years ago. Mature color, bricky rim, healthy deep garnet center. Gorgeous aroma of mixed dark and light berries. Almost sweet in the mouth, smooth, soft, medium weight flavors. Totally delicious. Tannins resolved but there's enough structure to let you know it's Bordeaux.
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Unglaublich, hatte selten so einen Wein! Well, here is the story to this excellent bottle: It was kept in a very humid cellar underneath a cottage with 1600 other very rare bordeaux bottles. Probably never stored above 15 degrees. Due to these conditions, the labels were destroyed. So we got this bottle (and 3 others from 1982: Margaux, Trotanoy, Fleur-Petrus) for a reasonable price. We opened all wines and did not decant them (were afraid of immediate oxidation). This one turned out to be our favorite. The wine is just excellent and shows beutiful nose. Dark red colour. But I wouldn't store it any longer. More complex than the 1982 Margaux. Tasted fresh very plummy and had an interesting cola taste! Long finish. So drink! Don't wait if you have a 0.75 bottle! Thanks to Joe @ Steinfelsweine
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Purchased at a Zachys auction in 2009. This wonderful bottle needed a good two hours to throw off some green notes which initially gave me some concern. However, by the time dinner rolled around, this became so soft and silky with the most incredible liquid graphite flavor. When Bordeaux reaches this kind of pinnacle with proper aging, the experienced is virtually un-matched. The finish is so luxuriously complex with no hard edges whatsoever and the wine was such a perfect match with the softness of a Lobel's center-cut chateaubriand. This great, great wine is now fully mature and I can't see it improving but it is at such a gorgeous plateau. This is why we collect the stuff.
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An unbelievable bottle of wine. A little mustiness which blew off quickly. Nose of old rose petals and mature blueberries. Full bodied an layers of complexity. Changed over the hour and the sandalwood and leather came out in waves. Amazing.
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Post-boards-celebration (Watertown): Beautiful brick disc, deep robe. Somewhat shy nose, but really lovely perfume; very floral, lavender, cassis, tobacco, Christmas spices, mineral, very refined oak. Plush nose, plump body, caressing palate. Almost a bacon note on the finish. I suppose I was expecting this to be more extroverted and while it wasn't loud, it was beautiful. A wine that whispers how beautiful it is in lots of different ways rather than shouting it just the once. Just exudes class.
4.5/5
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(94-95) AN drank with Ann Albin at Marcel’s for the latter’s 60th. Excellent, but not as good as the bottle we had with Ed and Miki. Perhaps because it was a little on the warm side?
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Surprisingly acidic when first opened but it quickly evolved into a smooth complex wine. The initial flowery nose changed to suggest leather and earth and the flavor changed from dark fruits when first poured to earth, leather and loam as it evolved in the glass. Very complex. One thing consistent was the tannins - always there, but a layer or two under the primary flavors. Excellent
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Drank this while making dinner so did not give it the right attention. That said, marvelous, classic Bordeaux that is perfectly mature. Fills the senses and lingers for a long, glorious finish. (99)
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The fill was into the neck and the cork was absolutely pristine; this bottle looked as though it had just come off the production line! As soon as I pulled the cork, heavenly aromas of ripe blackberry and cassis jumped from the bottle. In the glass, additional notes of plums, truffle and roasted herbs emerged; a truly profound bouquet! In the mouth, this was like liquid silk; perfectly round, expansive and lush, with no hard edges or anything out of balance. Layers and layers of flavor that fanned out across the palate -- the peacock's tail -- with an incredibly complex and long finish. I would say that this wine is at the absolute peak of maturity right now -- remember, this was a perfect bottle -- and I will be drinking my remaining bottles over the next 5 years. In summary, this wine moved me like no other in recent memory, and was truly a joy to experience.
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Just a delicious wine. Mature and smooth as silk. Totally integrated layers and layers of black fruit, mushrooms, licorice, leather, tobacco, and cedar. Wow.
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dark ruby color; elegant red raspberry, rhubarb, and red plum nose, light celery and cedar notes, still a hint of green on the nose and palate; very subtle mouth feel by 2010 standards, refreshing red raspberry, red plum flavors, good acid backbone,very pleasant but surprising how old fashioned it seems now; balanced, complex finish of berry fruit and light oak but I suspect far too subtle to get high scores from those that like '03, '05, '08 Bdx or the Calif Cults from the 90's onward.
Lalande is one of my perennial favorites but--- IF 82 is a great vintage and IF Lalande is a great 2nd then this bottle doesn't show it
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This is quite a wine. Opened and cosines over 4 hours. Started delicate ruby but gained depth throughout the night. Earth tobacco on the nose. Lovely red fruit with mature flavors. Will last for years. I wish I would have decanted.
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Pichon vs Pichon NYC (New York, United States): Now here was a wine that totally impressed. Thomas had brought two bottles because he was worried about bottle variation. Indeed, I suspect that the first bottle was just a bit more open and easy than the second, but both lived up to Robert Parker’s “perfect” point score. A perfect example at least of great Bordeaux: the 1982 Pichon Lalande showed verve yet richness and exhibited various aromas and flavors, very appealing, delicious and complex. The finish was long, and I just wish I had not enjoyed the wine as quickly as I did. It was a wine moment that I still keep repeating in my head now as I write these notes, wishing that instead of writing about it, I could be drinking more. In any case, a beautiful way to end a wonderful evening. WOTN
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Perhaps the best 82 I have had, including Latour, Lafite and Mouton. Did not have the power, but sweet fruit, rich round and spectacular. Anyone want to sell some?
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a perfect bottle! intense red, just an edge of plum purple; right after opening already a very intense nose, berries, citrus, red pepper; very elegant and round on the pallate with a long great finish. One of the best wines I ever had. Did decant the bottle about 3 to 4 hours before serving
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New year's eve & day; 12/31/2009-1/1/2010: What a treat - this has always been a very special wine and it has been a long 4 + years since I last tasted this reference point wine. Several nice bottles of the 83 & 86 have been delicious but this bottle reminded me of what a great silky and seamless wine this can be and the glory that can be found in a Bordeaux. A wine soaked cork that refused to cooperate and some funky smokey herbaceous aromatics had us in doubt yet the dark ruby color with barely 2 mm of meniscus of which only the very edge was clear kept our hopes alive. After almost 4 hours and just in time for the Venison wellington to be served this wine left everyone around the table speechless. My ability to write TN's does not do this wine justice triple digits tonight.Silk.
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This had been brought by a fellow I hadn't seen in years to a group tasting: truffles, damp earth a little green olive and a sweet finish. Obviously the best wine of the night---regrettably, the majority of fellas were swilling it like apple juice, a wine made to savor.
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Color - slight bricking, but mostly a perfect youngish ruby red (after three decants); Smell - blew off some fuel and funk early; settled into a fresh light spicy aroma; Taste - the tannins were completely integrated, leaving a structured perfectly balanced, nuanced flavor of cloves, pepper, saddle, and cherries. A pure, smooth and moth watering wine. The best Bord I can remember tasting.
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Ruby red no bricking; Rich nose of tobacco leaf, moist loam,coffee and very dark choc.; incredibly smooth mouth feel, well integrated dried cherry/red plum fruits with richer meaty broth, mocha coffee flavors; complex, changing over time but always extremely sophisticated, smooth character, elegant; very long finish but not flamboyant- understated so don't pair with sexy "tarts"
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I have had better bottles than this one. Still very youthful, tight for the first hour, then it blossomed, but at a lower level than the last couple of bottles. Still has 5-8 years of life remaining. Had 69 Leroy Echezeax with it, and much discussion about which to drink first. We decided to drink this first which I think was the correct order. The sweetness of the Echezeaux would have spoiled the enjoyment of this excellent wine.
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Daily excursion with my friend George, at Tsivlou Lake (North Peloponese - Greece), 800 m. altitude. This wine was a tribute to this wonderful landscape! Deep ruby, with a brownish rim. First impression: Mute nose and hursh tannis, dominated by flavors of berries. After some aeration into the glasses La Comtesse was unwraped... Layers of cedar, wet earth, spices, mushrooms, oaky vanilla, wild cherries and berries in a totaly perect balance. A legendary bordeaux with at least 10 years of life!!! Alongside Mouton Rothschild 1982, was WOTN.
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Lovely perfumed nose - easily the best of the night. Really sweet, precise and compact palate. Didn't quite seduce me in the way I'd hoped given all the hype. Still, a lovely claret.
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This is special wine here. Aromas jumping out of the glass with cassis, sweet berries, chocolate and a wonderful leathery note that lingered throughout the night. Really plush on the full-bodied with pure fruit hanging on the palate from beginning to end. Just seamless and beyond elegant. This wine really stood out from the crowd for me and was my easy WOTN.
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100 point tasting in Sweden. WOTF for me and the group. Especially in the beginning it was superb but it did lose a bit in the glass. This wine is always showing great. It feels like it will not last many more years, but it has been the same for 15 years. Fat, soft mouthfeel and great intensity and purity. Very, very long, pleasant aftertaste. Great sweetness, but with the salt, ash and complexity to still make it a serious wine. 99p.
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Pichon Lalande Vertical ('75, '78, '82, '88): Popped and poured. Great clear color. This was classically balanced and a succinct, refined experience. It needed about 30 minutes in the glass to open up. After about an hour is showed lots of tar and petroleum in the nose.
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I rated this wine 95 points, but at some stage scores would be around 90-92. Opened and decanted three hours before tasting. Good level, into neck. Color shows age, nose at first very sweet, hardly any fruit and a little flat. Sexy, but not as elegant and complex as one would expect. Taste at first very sweet as well, with cedar, chocolate and tobacco. We were a little disappointed because the Talbot 1982 we were tasting at the same time showed better! After cooling the bottle a few degrees the wine improved considerably. Thick concentrated layers of dark (but still very sweet) fruit (cassis) appeared, and it showed more elegance and body.
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A 100 pt Parker wine and if you have it, you will see why...Absolutely gorgeous...Dark, dark color with an amber edge. Huge nose of tobacco, dark cherries, lilies that jumps out of the glass. Great on the palate...Lush mid-palate and long on the finish.....flat part of the drinking plateau..It has some life ahead.
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This round, soft, supple, opulent and plush Bordeaux wine is filled with sexy, ripe, spicy fruit. The powerful, complex nose gets you started, but the supple texture in the mouth is where the real pleasure is truly released. Interestingly, often when I taste wines from Bordeaux, they show much younger than they do in the states. But this bottle was at the same level of maturity as the 82 Pichon's from my cellar. No real hurry to drink it. This has remained at the same stellar level of maturity for the past several years.
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Sunny Lunch in Hampsted- decanted a few hours.a little lightening around the edges but not much, great sexy nose of black fruit and a touch of cherries. there was a little mustiness around but it was blew right off, in the mouth this was great, tart black fruit, some tobacco and just nice and lush from front to back, had a nice medium long finish and quite a youthful weight to it. this bottle was in great shape and has years of pleasure left in it. great with the steaks
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MOPA 100 Point Wine Tasting (Rancho Santa Fe, CA): Showing more age than the other ‘82’s at this event. Fabulous nose, but in palate the fruit is really start to recede. Meaty, truffly, but missing something. Flatlined in the finish.
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Revisited this favorite of mine once again. Wow! The nose is by far the most sedictive of the wines I have tasted, filling your senses with black fruit and what I could best describe as crowberry heath (I have been trying for some time to find the right description - this is quite close. It probably represents the earthy notes combined with the strong black fruit). Very rich, sensual on the palate and with the same beautiful and looooooooong finish. Itremains my favorite.
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Red Bordeaux does not come much better than this. Had this bottle along 82 Cheval Blanc and 82 Cos. The Cheval seemed tired in comparison and although it was delicious it has definitely passed it's peak. Not sure the bottle of Cos was 100%, it was nice, but not outsrtanding.The Lalande on the other hand was monumental much more concentrated and darker in colour with a very fragnant nose. Still lots of life left, fills your mouth with black fruit, tobacco and a long lingering after taste. Sublime!
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I brought two of these to BWE DC 2009 as part of the blind tasting. It utterly fooled me by being ripe, luscious, voluptuous, rich; just plain decadent with cherry, chocolate, raspberry flavors and perfect balance. It was the clear favorite of the group and mine, too. I was confident it was the '85 Margaux but then I did not get any of the six wines correct.
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What a beauty! Perfect bordeaux drinking pleasure. Decanted for 2 hours. Deep ruby, velvet color up to the rim. Great Bordeaux fruit shooting out of the glass, cassis, roasted nuts, tobacco. On the palate Bordeaux at it's best is present: sexy mouthfeel , sweetness, black fruit, caramel, chocolate, pure and silky, extremely ripe and rounded tannins ending in a long aftertaste.
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From half bottle, deep ruby in colour, the nose is just spectacular, I don't have exact words to precisely describe it!!! On the palate, silky smooth and very rich! Overall, very very impressive. Need to drink now if you had the half bottle!
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This was not a perfect bottle; top shoulder fill. A murky garnet color, with some amber at the edge. Tired bouquet, with a touch of oxidation. Similar characterisitcs on the palate; this bottle was well past its peak. Glad I had the '90 L'Evangile as a backup!
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Oo! Oo! Gorgeous nose. Fantastic, hedonistic black fruit. This is one of the youngest smelling 82s I've come across in recent years. Mmmm.... this is lovely. Hugely drinkable and with lots of character. This is sublime, hedonistic, gorgeous, silky, easy drinking. If you wanted to be really critical, and with a wine this damn near perfect, that's in order, then I think you could say that it's opulence and deliciousness makes it not seem entirely classic claret. Where's that touch of austerity? Bloody marvellous wine.
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This offered an explosive nose! Rich blackberry, black cherry, raspberry, truffles, cigar and herb notes. Big, powerful, concentrated, opulent and with great balance coupled with finesse.
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White Truffle Dinner (Chez Patrick Sun Street, Hong Kong): Deep red, nearly transparent colour but with no bricking. A fantastic elegant and poised nose of multi-layered and changing elements of cassis, ripe plums and smoke from an old temple: a class or two above the impressive Lynch Bages 1982....elegance being the separator. Huuuge depth on the palate, which has loads of coffee, caramel, sweetness and intensity, with a touch of Turkish Delight and incense. Extremely well integrated and balanced. An incredible length and very big "in your head" sensations which roll on and on. This is a wine of kings.
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The best bottles have delivered sublime tasting experiences. Luckily, this bottle delivered the goods. Ruby in color, the explosive nose of cassis, black fruit, olives, spice and truffle are a treat. But where this wine delivers the goods is on the palate. Lush, fat, sexy, opulent and flamboyant. Layer after layer of luscious juice with a silk laden finish lasting close to one minute! 82 Pichon Lalande is a contender for the most decadent Pauillac ever made! Well stored wines have another decade or two of evolution in their future.
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Opened and let it breathe in the bottle for 2 hours. Soft but excellent nose dominated with dark fruit with but some tobacco and cedar. Dark ruby colour, very attractive. Very rich on the palate, full bodied but still light somehow, red and black fruit coming together in an amazing balance and very long finish. There was still a hint of tannins there, hopefully it has some years to go.
Clearly among the best wines I've had in my lifetime.
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I have had good bottles of 82 Pichon and mindblowers. This was among the latter. From the moment the cork was popped and the wine was decanted this exuded fat layers of cassis, tobacco and roasted plum. What a mindblowingly sexy nose! The palate was even better, generous, sumptuous, exotic, quite endless and plush in fact. How does this wine manage to deliver such luxurious fruit on top of such a traditional Bordeaux frame? The tobacco and mineral and smoke and earth are all there, but what moves this to the next level is the ripe hedonism yet without the slightest trace of heaviness. Lithe, delicious, sexy and exotic, this remains my dream wine no matter how often I have it.
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Another fabulous effort from this gem. Decanted for 4 hours and made of the whole smell beautifully. Cranberry, graphite, lead pencil and barnyard..just amazing. Glad I have 2 left.
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From bottles purchased at Zachys auction that cost 6 times what I originally purchased a case for in the late 80's. Drunk outdoors with Lobel's ribeye's on Fire Island. Absolutely in perfect condition and drinking so beautifully now with incredible aged Bordeaux flavors of roasted nuts, tobacco and charred black fruit. Finishes so pure and silky like a thin velvet robe. This still has plenty of years to go but must be at its prime drinking window now although I said that 5 years ago. Very close to the unreal '82 Cheval Blanc I had recently.
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This wine seems to be stuck at its current state of evolution. Not that it's a bad place to be, but it's remarkable how each bottle over the last few years has been amazingly firm and tannic. I'm confident there is a core of ripe blackcurrent and black licorice in there somewhere, but I don't know when I'll get to see more than a hint. That said, for the tannin-tolerant, this is an outstanding classic Medoc that is just right to match full flavored food.
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No formal note. Tasted blind. This was just fantastic on the nose, still young with some bordeaux funk. The palate had amazing structure and was very youthful still. This wine I think got lost in the shuffle from some of the much younger wines that were represented, by itself this wine ROCKS.
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This was an interesting pairing with the '82 L'Evangile, with the former more lush and the Pauillac more structured as expected. This is clearly an outstanding wine but I'm not ready to jump on the 100 point bandwagon yet. Still, the excellent depth of blackcurrant fruit, the supple yet firm tannins and the perfect acidity are hard not to like. It seems there is still time for this one to grow and become more complex and thereby more interesting. Surely the best PL to drink now.
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Perhaps a bit past its prime but still a very elegant wine. I wanted to stretch the service of this expensive wine over the entire meal. Prosciuto & melon, filet migon, salad of greens and finally a cheese course. I was concerned that the wine would decline by the time we got to the cheese. Pulled the cork, replaced, decanted as we served the filet. Elegant is a good word. Almost perfectly balanced with noticeable smoke and still enough power. The fruit was subdued but pleasant. We lingered and enjoyed but the wine was declining quickly at the end. Great wine but don't give it too much decanting now. I bought it in 1985 for $15. Always my favorite. 3 more to go.
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Best bottle of wine I've ever had. Not from a knee-buckling OMG standpoint, but WOW what a wine. Complexity layered upon complexity. Had to force myself to pull my nose out of the glass to actually drink the wine.........
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Steven K. Dinner Party (Home): Far better than the last example I had of this. Showing just minor signs of age on the color, everything else here was still showing very well. Lots of classic Paullac character with cedar, briar, and graphite along with black fruit. Still lots of life left on the palate with a good measure of black fruit and even some youthful sweetness remaining. Well into its drinking window, this was still showing very well and one of the top wines of the night.
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From a very well stored mag. Very aromatic. Almost a sweet soy sauce note on the nose with cassis violets and graphite/pencil. But it is on the palate where this really delivers. Huge mouth coating cassisy black current fruit in perfect balance which leads to a a rich complex and very long finish. Not a hint of the tobacco box, cedar notes of many high quality left bank Bordeaux (comparatively more merlot in Pichon perhaps the reason), and very much all the better for it in the sense of a great Bordeaux with an almost unique style or quality. This wine may keep for a few more years, but it won't get better. At this point, certainly a top ten wine of the year.
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Had a magnum along with a magnum of 1998 Sassacaia for my 55th birthday. The Pichon had a great bouquet, velvet tannins and good fruit and attack as it hit your mouth, but faded quickly. Iy is time to drink whatever you have left. It is still a wonderful time, but like a beautiful older woman, she tires quickly. Drink up.
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AMAZINGLY COMPLEX WINE, BLACK AND RED FRUITS, COFFEE, LEATHER, CHOCOLATE IN THE NOSE AND FLAVOR. CLEARLY FULLY MATURE NOW AND SHOULD BE DRUNK IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF YEARS.
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Dinner at Café Panache (Ramsey, NJ): This is the only time I've ever had the pleasure, and it was a strange showing. It was perfectly correct, with no flaws that any of us could spot. It had a recognizable profile of lead pencil, black fruits, leather, and minerals, but, for a 1982 Bordeaux, from this real estate, there just wasn't much going on. It didn't seem souped up or anything. Just underperforming, given the circumstances.
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The wine was like a pretty lady who is slightly past her prime. You can tell that she's still beautiful but you wish you met her in her best days. Wine was tight, some fruits, some minerals but somehow faded in taste. Easy to drink after decanting for 1 hour.
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Popped on a Monday night "just for the heck of it" since I have a big shoulder surgery coming up in 2 days and needed some relief. A tight bottle of this elixir. Opened up with dominant notes of mint and tobacco. Initially a bit lean on the palate, after an hour in the decanter this fleshed out gorgeously showing the fat, sexy, ripe personality this wine is so famous for. Seductively ripe yet with lovely mineral, cranberry and iron notes playing against the tobacco and cassis. A pinnacle expression of Bordeaux, so ripe and forward, yet so classic at the same time. This wine is always a special treat.
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Huge depth and viscosity, no age at all, portlike. The most enchanting nose of all things claret, smoke, leather, autumn smells spice...........and then, an amazing mouthful of layers of fruit and spice and tannin and ALL in balance. So long. This was without doubt one of those lifetime wines " just lay me down by still waters with a bottle of this, and my vinous life would be completed." Obvious WOTN and worth RP's 100 pointer.,
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Lush, opulent and sexy. Truffles, cigar box, cedar, sweet black fruit and spicy plums. Richly decadent with an opulent texture on the palate. The endless finish was seamless. The wine continued showing some improvement in the glass.
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Light garnet, bricking at rim. Cassis fruit mixed with stems and some lovely gravelly depth. Quite youthful. Less impressive on the palate – a bit flat – but really this is just quibbling as the wine is flat out delicious. (94)
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Garnet purple. Really amazing nose, of lavender, cedar, cassis, plum, shoe polish. Lovely on the palate, with integrated black plum, black currants. Could not get past a certain green vegetal note, tho, which prevented this from being otherworldly.
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We had this at the Blue Bottle (BYOB) in Hopewell NJ. A close friend with a rather LARGE and extremely EXPENSIVE cellar asked me to bring something decent (for a change). So I brought 1982 Pichon. This is a wine I drink about every 2-3 years since I only have a bit left. The silence was deafening. We decided to drink the Pichon first and his very good 2000 Barolo second. That was the correct decision since the Pichon was expected to be lighter in body. We started the Pichon before we had any food when we were 100% sober. The Pichon was refined, fully mature and astonishing. It developed a hint of smoke after about 15 minutes. The 82 Pichon has consistently been the best wine I have ever had. Wow. The barolo was OK. It was a red wine as I recall. Alas, only 5 more Pichon to go.
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Wow...this was a special treat. Wonderful bouquet of dirt, leather and saddle. Typical Bordeaux nose. Velvety smooth, pefectly balanced with a nice lengthy finish. I am very glad to have one more in the cellar.
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South Florida does Pichon-Lalande: Not surprisingly, the star of the show at the Pichon vertical at Café Maxx. Sometimes this vintage of P-L shows surprisingly backward and stubborn, but this impeccably stored bottle (purchased on release by Bob) was flourishing wonderfully. Really huge, lush, fat and velvety. Simply gorgeous dark berry fruit that lingered on the palate for minutes. This is the wine that put (modern) Pichon on the map and while it's not perfect, it's irresistible.
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Introspective Retrospective Tasting at Ken's (Ken's Place): Hello-o-o-o-o, NURSE! Hugely effusive nose with complexity and full aromatics that show pure beautiful fruit, herbs and spice. Palate is medium bodied with rich, full, forward fruits. Even today, so young but showing complexity with tar and green herbs. Fruit is well balance by suave tannins and lifting acidity. Long, long full-flavored finish. Simply gorgeous.
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Complex, mature, seductive nose, and wonderful on the palate, with multifaceted smoke, leather, and subtle fruit. Not overwhelmingly long. Plenty of tannins, which I found to lack integration with the wine's flavors, and generally stand in the way of my enjoyment. To be sure, this is excellent Bordeaux, and it's still drinking very well. But its lack of integration keeps it out of the realm of the very best Bordeaux I've drunk. Of note, this wine completely fell apart two hours after opening, at which point it turned into dank, barely drinkable cooking wine.
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This incredibly rich, lush, sexy, mouth filling Bordeaux wine is hedonism in a glass. Black fruit, earth and spices start off the aromatic fireworks. But, the deep, layer after layer of opulent ripe fruit that coats your mouth is for me, the true hallmark of this magnificent wine. The seamless finish last close to a minute. When this wine shows well, it’s one of the great treats from Bordeaux and this bottle was rocking
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82 Bordeaux Tasting (Chanterelle): Serious plum and graphite on the nose. Luscious, core red fruit, with a bit of spice. A bit of green pepper, which detracts in my opinion. Otherwise great.
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Graduation wines (Columbus, OH): Much better than the last example of this I had. Forward, heavily Merlot-influenced nose of plum and tobacco. Lush and really well balanced. Well-integrated tannins could still soften some. Great stuff.
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Penultimate bottle from an en primeur purchased case of 12. Maybe I shall never again be able to afford such a fine wine. This wine has given much drinking pleasure over the last 5 - 10years and seems to get better with each bottle. Such a classy complex mature nose, silky smooth on the palate, heavenly flavours difficult to describe. Just sit back & enjoy it, and forget about the tasting notes !
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Soy, graphite, olive tapanede, and cassis take over the controls of your senses. This bottle did not offer the usual parade of opulent textures. Slightly brawny for an 82 Pichon, this proves by 20 years of age, there are no great wines, just great bottles.
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1982 Bordeaux with Leve at Spago (Los Angeles, CA): Bow down at the altar of wine!!!!! One taste and I was in heaven. OMFG, what a great, great, young bottle of 82 Pich! Soy, mint and even a hint of bacon on the nose. This is such an exotic wine with an incredibly sweet core of fruit, mindblowing wine, sweet and sour, stunning, dancing, vibrant, exotic. About as good an example as I have tasted in a dozen tries.
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Medium-garnet colour. Aromas of graphite/pencil lead, earth, leather, dried red fruit. Medium-bodied, with nicely integrated tannins and a palate that shows replays from the nose. Moderate finish, ~35s. Drinking very well right now, but this bottle was a little lacking compared to my previous taste.
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(Hugh's bottle, purchased on release.) This may be the most interesting '82 as well as one of the very best. Every bottle is a new adventure. This one showed a fabulous integration of luscious blackberry fruit with a firm, but not stiff, tannic structure. It was decanted for 3 hours, but over the course of a three hour dinner, it didn't even budge - not that it was anything but sheer pleasure in a very left bank Cabernet-dominated way. The puppy fat I remember so well from its early days has been shed completely and clearly there are many years of delight ahead. This is Exhibit A of why top Bordeaux from a fine vintage gains over decades of rest.
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Dinner with fresh truffles (Sydney, Australia): Such a seductive, voluptuous wine. A superb nose of smoky cedar, gravel, pencil shavings, cassis, tobacco and black olive. Every element of the palate is working together in seamless harmony. Elegant yet rich, with a velvet like texture as it slides along the palate into an breathtaking length finish. An absolute privilege to get to drink.
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Before drinking this I expected all and nothing. On the one hand side I thought something magical has to happen when I drink this... the price and all the ratings can't justify less. On the other hand side: this is just a bottle of wine. I drank some really nice (and expensive) wines in the past and the difference can't be that big. Well, what happened was – you probably already predicted – kind of both. Through this wine I think I've learned what most peoples picture of a perfect wine is: This wine is flawless. EVERY aspect of this wine is just right. Color, nose, acidity, tannins, mid-palate, finish etc. is just in a way that there is nothing to criticise. It is endlessly smooth and I finally realized what it means if a wine has a PERFECT balance. So, it's not the magic "bang", but a subtle supremacy. How superior this wine really is was shown by direct comparison to a 1989 Pichon Baron. Clearly a very good wine (I tasted it right after opening and again after 2 hours of decanting). BUT: the Lalande "polluted" my palate and – to state it mildly – KILLED the Baron. It was just an unforgettable experience, but still I save one point for even more to come (I'm a positive thinker). I needed some time to think this experience over... that's why my tasting note comes over two weeks after the tasting.
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The color is still good. I can't explain how incredibly deep and pure the nose of this wine is. It is classic Bordeaux with notes of sweet tobacco, peanuts, and a perfume of the earth that is hard to describe. On the palate the wine is amazing with an ethereal lightness of texture which builds to an ultra-long, deeply concentrated finish of incredible complexity. This is the finest showing I've had of this wine and I finally see what Parker means. If there's anything in the world that goes better with a barbequed porterhouse than this wine, as Jennifer Simpson would say: "I wann it." Decanted for 1 hour before consumption.
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Tasting note from memory. This was a tight bottle. It started very slow and reticent, very unusual for this wine. And then slowly, slowly, slowly over a 90 minute period this this started to build and build and build until it was a strong but not outstanding example of this normally mindblowing wine. Very high 90's. Always pure sex in a bottle. I love the stuff!
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Well...this is the real deal. Color is dark garnet with lightening at the rim, but no browning. Nose shows smooth dark fruit, cassis, a floral element, smoke, and leather. On the palate, there is a healthy dose of dark fruit (cassis) framed by tar, leather, and smoke. Very nice with well-integrated tannin. An absolute beauty that did not disappoint...thanks to Jim Stone for this rare opportunity.
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Pre-Harlan Warm-up at Brad England's House: Served beside the 82 Pichon Baron. This was a stunning bottle of wine. Big expressive nose of black fruit, mineral, and a slight green streak that was positively endearing. The texture of this is exquisite -- even surpassing the 85 Margaux. The complex taste includes a silky blend of black fruit, licorice, earth, and a slight green pepper. Balanced, fully integrated tannin, and a beautiful finish. This paired exceptionally well with the grilled steak.
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Harlan Warm-Up Dinner (Brad's House, Minneapolis): Wow, a stunner of a bottle. Gorgeous, explosive red fruit, with silky tannins and incredible structure. Classic Pauillac cedar, pencil lead, spice box. A supple, amazing wine.
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This is kinda silly but I'm going back and remembering wines I've had as far back as 15-20 yrs ago. This was tasted in the early 90's..not exactly sure of the date and stood out as the best of the best 1st growth Bordeaux I've ever had. I bought almost every top rated 1982 Bordeaux during that time period and this is my favorite. Some were great but many were dissapointments... this wasn't. What stood out was the great nose it had followed by the great balance between the fruit and structure. Intoxicating, Deep sweet fruit but very elegant even in it's youth. I tried the 1982 Comtesse several times during that period and It's stayed with me till today. That's what I call a finish.
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THIS WINE IS STUNNING. First try for me and my expectations was VERY HIGH. Huge wine with layers of fruit, very complex and it delivered tonight. Consumed with a delicious rack of lamb - perfect match!
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(Lampreia, Seattle) Earthy mushrooms, spicey cigar and cedar on the nose. Just blew out of the glass from the get-go. Same soie texture as my previous, but more intense and more layers of olive, mint and a really mineral, gravelly core. Very yielding and indulgent with a nice power. Awesome wine. Thanks, Eric.
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This was the 10th time I have had this wine, and this was a really, really good bottle; a pinnacle example. Black olive, tobacco and mineral all scream of Pauillac. There is also an exotic note of mint. The palate was lush, ripe, powerful and truly voluptuous. A truly unique and indulgent wine that nearly always delivers.
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Sadly, I am unable to score this wine, since it was served much too warm at Café l'Europe as the finale to our Pichon Lalande mini-vertical ('03, '00, '89, '86, '83, '82). I brought it undecanted since their wine service is exemplary and none of the other bottles were decanted ahead of time. Clearly, it was the best of the PLs from the eighties, although the '83 (also too warm) was not far behind. About all I could tell was that it was concentrated, well fruited, and probably in its prime.
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The ruby color sported some bricking, but one whiff of this complex perfume showed how great this wine truly is. Cassis, figs, coffee, coca powder, hot stones, tobacco & herbs explode from the glass. The palate where this wine really struts its stuff. Seamless taste sensations of juicy, ripe plums and blackberry liqueur coat every nook and cranny of your palate with multiple layers of dense, lush, silky fruit. Shared with dad for Fathers day.
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Old Bordeaux and young Cults with Jeff Leve (Los Angeles, CA): Dominated by cedar at first and not showing as sultry and ripe as it usually does. With 30 minutes in the glass this did 'pop' with a nice blast of tobacco, cassis and flowery perfume. Not a surreal bottle but very strong as always.
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Tasted as the finale to a vertical tasting of the 1988, 1994, and 1997 vintages. The 1982 easily bested all three. The bottle was close to shoulder fill, but the cork was in perfect condition. This bottle had been loved all of it's life. Decanted for (2-3) hours. The bouquet still maintained the lovely sweet blackberry, tobacco, and vanilla, but aromas are more subtle than the younger wines. Lovely rich purple coloring with a touch of amber at the edges. Perfectly structured, unctuous texture, with a tranquilizing, beautiful, transcendent finish. The wine is fully mature and seems to request consumption sooner than later.
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Full Disclosure: This is the first high end, fully mature Bordeaux I have ever had the pleasure to taste. Purchased at Crush in NYC the day before consumption. Consumed at Bice (52nd and Madison) the following day with family over dinner.
SMOOTH. This baby was smooth. Nothing harsh or tannic or bitter. Just sweetness down the goblet. Fruit, but nothing tremendously forward, just there. Berries with lead pencil (or is that my Bordeaux reading talking). You could really taste the terroir in this wine. Really sense the ground these grapes grew in.
Not a 100 as the finish was not as long and powerful as I would expect (perhaps unfairly) from a wine of this magnitude and because the fruit, while delightful, was not the explosion I expected (perhaps unfairly).
Overall, sublime and truly a wine at peace with itself. Drink now!
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The color is a dark garnet, looks young and considering the age very promising. Sniffed right after opening. The nose is somewhat restrained with a few hints of blackcurrant and nothing else. I immediately feel a little puzzled - is that it? The taste is just as limited - some tannins are present, but the taste is very limited, even a bit watery and the aftertaste very short. Before making a premature judgement I decided to let it rest a bit in the decanter. After an hour it seems to be almost the same. I cannot say that something is obviously wrong, it behaves and tastes like a somewhat typical cheap Bordeaux with a light to medium body, tannins and hints of blackcurrant. In a few flashes it seems to hint at something else, but it's always gone before I can catch it... (and its probably just a result of my hopeful imagination...) I have never tasted this wine before and have no frame of reference, but I am fairly convinced that this is not what RP rated 100 points. I cannot recognize a single line from his description. Most likely its an off bottle, its over the top or maybe it has leaked (the cork was fragile and looked soaked). Rating: n/a.
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Fill just into the neck. There was some dried wine/mold on the top of the cork, but somehow the capsule spun? Cork was saturated throughout, but the long cork came out easily in one piece. Audouzed for 2 hours. Nose of chocolate, coffee, smoked bloodly meats, green pepper, ripe black/red fruit. Taste of ripe black/red fruit, partially resolved tannons, tar, earth. Good balance. Extended delineated, minerally finish. Seemed to be lacking fruit in the quality and quantity expected, and a seeming absence of mid-palate structural elements. Almost monolithic - disappointing.
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Cellar Party for Bayfront Med Center Foundation. I love this wine! Always close to perfect depending on the particular bottle. Black fruits playing bass with the tannins on strings, all balanced out by tastes of leather, tobacco, spice and milk chocolate. Gorgeous!
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Consumed with Lobel's filets and potatoes liberally doused with butter and sea salt. The bottle's fill was just above the shoulder, three-quarters of an inch away from the bottom of the cork. The capsule spun easily. Upon removal of the cork, I had a moment of panic, as the cork was cracked and deeply stained to within a quarter-inch of the top. Please don't be oxidized, oh please, please, please...
In the glass: a deep plum color, gradually fading through orange and then orange-amber at the rim, with a slight viscosity in the glass when swirling. The nose was slightly muted for the first 20 minutes, but came fully alive after that, with all of the classic Pauillac hallmarks singing in harmony: cedar, tobacco, mint. What an exotic yet enticing aroma. I found myself lingering with my nose in the glass.
On the palate: a core of saturated dark deep fruit, predominantly cassis, with a slight touch of sweetness providing balance with the tannins, and even slighter notes of soy and black olive adding complexity. The texture of this wine is superlative, a silky glycerin mouthfeel that deposits a lasting finish. One of the great pleasures of a wine of this caliber is the ability to lick your teeth and voila! The wine is back.
Shared with my wife, as close to an ideal lunch as I could imagine, and a solid, stirring reminder of the reasons I got into wine in the first place. If you have a bottle, open it and celebrate, simply because you can.
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The 82 lived up to its billing and was absolutely spectacular. Rich dark fruits, well structured tanins and a very long finish. This wine got better the more it breathed. The person who brought it said it was the best bottle from his case that he has had yet. Truly a great wine.
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Beautiful deep color with only slightest edge of transparency at rim; juicy, almost pruney ripeness of fruit. Incredible breadth of flavors truly at prime of life; impeccably balanced. Goes on for a minute or more. Classic. Privelege to taste this!
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While clearly a superb wine, I did not get quite the 100 point thrill that Arlette did. Emphatically dark in color, like a new release. It's a powerhouse that lives on the intensity of its black and blue fruit. A strong backbone of very ripe tannin gives it a potent structure, but the intensity of the ripe, but not over-ripe, fruit in the middle buffers it perfectly. This wine seemed like a short-lived pleasant fruit bomb in its youth, then became too hard and now it's emerging from its tannic armor to begin its long plateau of (near) perfection.
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61/82 Bordeaux Dinner (Luxor in Marunouchi): Lighter than the young Latour – similar to the ’61 Latour in color, though a little more solid. A greenish stem note begins the nose – not green like CF ivy leaves or bell pepper, but sappy young green – not an unpleasant flaw but not exactly typical. This does fade away and leaves solid cedar and cassis notes with strong and distinct highlights of duck blood and sweet wild berry syrup, plus a little low volume truffly earth. There is green on the palate as well, but again not hard or tart or offensively herbaceous. The green shows more as cheek coating tannins that manage to be a bit wild and rough but lovely and lush in texture at the same time. Until a late night revisit and a rereading of my notes, my summary was “in good shape, almost true to type, but somehow a little odd and not my favorite wine, even as a Loire CF fan”. There was never any question that this is a stunning and complex wine, just one of how much I personally liked it. After a late night last taste combined with a romantic rereading of my notes, the odd edges are really growing on me. Would love to taste again in a smaller cohort where I can really spend an evening with it.
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High shoulder fill. Cork stained nearly to the top. Nose laden with cedar, cassis, red fruits, blueberry. Aerated for two hours, it was full of red fruit and cassis. The finish, however, had an astringent quality which did not resolve even after 3 hours. I suspect a cooked specimen.
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'82s at Lola: Saturated and deeply colored but still slightly translucent at the rim. Bottle sweet hickory nose. Sweet lovely. Tangy, concentrated palate. Pretty good. 100pts?
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Great, mature Bordeaux. Tastes more like a good 59. Surprisingly ready to drink but VERY enjoyable. Huge nose, great supple mouthfeel with no weak spots at all. Much more mature than the Certan de May we had with it. Long, delicious aftertaste. Can’t wait to open the next one.
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HDH Pre-Auction Tasting (Chicago Athletic Club): Wine tasting. Showing more advanced age than I expected. Mostly red fruit on nose, then red and black on palate. Some smoked meat herbs on palate. Good in every way, but not particularly deep or nuanced for me today. Also most likely not getting any better.
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This was one of the more brooding examples of this wine I have ever tasted. Some initial barnyard notes blow off to reveal a black, brooding nose redolent of tobacco and mineral. There is a stunning richness to the wine, but the finish starts out tight and gravel-laden. However, with a nice ribeye and an hour of air, this starts to explode from the glass. Mint, hints of coffee, and loads of tobacco pour forth. The loaded and plush palate is screams of black cherry and a shocking level of minerality. Silky and enveloping, this is an utterly singular wine that rarely disappoints. And with time the finish stretches out beautifully. I wonder if maybe this bottle saw some heat at some point, as it just never showed the level of overt fruit that I have seen it deliver in the past. Still, it is a gorgeous, textbook example of Pauillac at its best.
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Ruddy burgundy colour. Aromas of grilled meat, graphite, pencil shavings, dried herbs, cedar, blackcurrant, leather, tobacco. Full-bodied, seamless wine, with graphite, black fruit, leather, cedar, and tobacco notes on the palate. A little tannin comes through on the 40-45s finish that shows black fruit and cedar.
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A perfect magnum in perfect condition filled with perfect wine. Dinner at home with the lads from Ireland. Turns out you can ask a question like "Who's the greatest footballer in the world--or all time" and they'll talk all night long (while the host sips his way thru the magnum!).
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TN: OFFline: Pichon Baron VS. Pichon Lalande 1982, 1986, 1989, 1990, 1995, 1996, 2000 (NYC): My second time with this wine. Last time I scored this a 98, and this time it deserves the coveted perfect score. Just simply ready for action with delicious jammy perfect aromatics and a KILLER balances mouth, palate, feel. This wine is built for perfectionists. It's all there guys - if you haven't tried it, you have to get it. Fortunately this bottle was sourced from a cellar that was housing the wine @ 55 degrees since release.
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Outstanding. Soft, but full nose with cigar box, earth and fruit. Incredible soie on the palate. Long finish with currants, spice and rich fruit. Complex and delicious. Brought to Bones, Atlanta and a perfect match with steaks.
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Bought as a library wine about two months ago. Low-shoulder fill. Cork saturated with red all the way up to the top. Nose: lots of tobacco, cedar, pencil lead, and black fruit which yielded to more pure fruit as the evening progressed. After about 90 minutes, there was all this pure red fruit just roaring on the palate, along with a bit of peppery, spicy quality on the long finish. Tannins smoothed-out. I have no idea if this was a typical bottle (I think not in view of the low fill and red cork), but there was a lot going on.
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Pre-Parker warmup dinner at Citronelle (Washington DC): This wine always speaks to me! The nose is screaming with black fruit and tobacco, spicy and cedary, dark and brooding. The palate is sweet, almost insanely ripe. Compared to other bottles I have opened this is very, VERY young!
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Impossible to determine from the main or strip labels, the cork reveals that this bottle was re-corked at the Chateau in 1993. Why? I purchased it from WineBid a few years ago. It certainly looked to be in fine condition, with a mid neck level and clean label as expected. The color was deep ruby with a bit of orange at the rim. I decanted this three hours in advance. Lovely classical Medoc smell of cedar, dark berry and spice. Quite firm on the attack, more from juicy acidity than tannins. As the wine continued to develop in the glass, it become less fragrant and even more structured. A fine match for the pancetta-wrapped tendeloin of veal at Mark's Las Olas, but far from the easy fruity sipper this wine was in its youth.
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Screaming notes of tobacco, coffee, cedar, black fruit, Asian spices and steel. This bottle was firing on all cylinders. Thick, lush, decadent, ripe fruit, filled every nook and cranny of your palate. Very seamless and elegant. Fully mature, but there is probably no rush to consume it. This is still a wow wine. For me, this style of wine is the quintessential Bordeaux marrying power with elegance. A real treat to taste.
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ERI Pre-Auction Wine Tasting (San Francisco CA): Wine tasting. Slightly musty to start, this should have been opened earlier and given more air. Concentrated black fruit emerged with some time, aeration and coaxing. Smoky black currant and black cherry flavors with big structural support. Long finish.
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'A Taste for Life' hosted by WineCommune (San Francisco, CA): Smoky and earthy with deep notes of cassis, charcoal, tobacco and roasted espresso coming through. Wow, there is so much ripe cassis still on display in this lavish wine! On the palate this is like a silk blanket, just unreal texturally. The finish screams of tobacco with a very dark personality, very reminiscent of a bottle I enjoyed on my birthday 11/8/2003. This wine and this particular bottle deliver everything I want in a Bordeaux.
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Dinner at Rubicon and a surreal pre-tasting (San Francisco, CA): F'ing A, this has a ripe, ripe nose with loads of bursting cassis and hints of olive and dill. Oh wow, the palate on this is just so stunning! The palate on this shows more structure than I recall with loads of life.
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WOW look at that dark, dark fruit. This is really a 82 - that dark still? My 1982 Bordeaux Hymen has been broken .. dark plum color, black fruit nose. silky soft in the palate, rounded, tannins still evident on the finish - this puppy has many many years ahead of it.. Yummy. What a treat.
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The color was closer to ruby than dark red with slight lightening around the edges. The texture reminded me of dense, voluptuous, liquid silk. This was absolutely seamless! The aromatics showcased cassias, plums, smoke and a cornucopia of black & red fruits with a cedary component. This was a stellar bottle offering as much pleasure as you can get from a wine!
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Wow, this is everything I want in a great Bordeaux! Amazing mature nose of tobacco, shoe leather, pencil lead and spice box. Refined mouthfeel with rich wide fruit and an incredible finish. An hour after opening the mid palette just exploded and behaved like a wine 15 years younger. Good to the last drop.
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MI Wine Club Ultracollectible Dinner (Seattle, WA, USA): This was my bottle (a magnum), and I am now 4 for 4 with this wine. This wine consistently takes me to my "happy place." This shows a stunningly youthful nose of tobacco, minerals and black fruit. The cassis and purity on the attack is just mindblowing. This is clearly the most youthful of the four bottles of this I have tasted. This wine is utterly seamless, just so smooth and powerful from entry all the way through the 30 second finish. Served with a timbale of wild grains, sauteed leeks and grilled portabello mushroom.
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Chicago Wine Company, purchased on release. Totally different. Dark and tight. Very tannic, even inky. Refuses to open up even after 3 hours in the glass. Puzzling. No score.
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This did not knock me out like the last time I had it. Still a great wine. Wonderful nose that made me weak in the knees (I really wrote that in my tasting book.) Much better nose than palate. It is thick and lush but does not have enough depth.
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Seattle Tasting Group 'End of Year Dinner' (Sammamish, WA, USA): Oh let me die now if it will happen any time soon! This was served alongside 1982 Leoville Las Cases and 1983 Margaux, the most glorious three wines I have ever had together and 299 points of pleasure. The aromatics on this were more expressive than my last bottle with menthol and some cool elements ultimately giving way to a textbook nose of tobacco and cigar box. The palate was glorious, utterly seamless, among the most perfectly silky wines I have ever enjoyed. More incredible tobacco and a black edge fill your mouth. Long, silky, and caressing. Remarkable! This is the third time I have had this wine in three months, what a treat! (Group average 96.44)
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Our "house wine" the past several years. :-) Tasted close to 20 times since 1999, 3 times from magnum, it has never failed to impress (well actually there was 1 bottle that was corked). I wondered with the first few bottles if it would last, as it seemed to be at its height and fully fully mature, but it seems to be settling into an easy plateau that I hope will last for some time. It's soft going in, but has plenty of structure, well-integrated tannins and fruit, a nose that blooms and blooms, and a finish that lingers so you slow down and sip and swirl and sniff and make that stuff last all night long.
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On turning 34... (Seattle, WA, USA): Is scoring this known 100-pointer as 100 points self serving? Probably! However, the fact remains that this wine did things that I have never before witnessed from a wine. At first I thought that this might be a tired bottle, but then it exploded with a sweet nose that was very high-toned, with a not quite minty character. With time some more brooding smells of black licorice come forward. On the palate, this wine puts a new meaning on the word seamless, as the texture, balance, intensity and consistency from start to finish are unlike anything that I have ever encountered before! This is definitely among the silkiest wines I have ever tasted with a long, black, tobacco driven finish. All I can say is WOW!
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Chicago Wine Company, purchased on release. Medium color. Lovely fragrance of Spring flowers and hint of cedar. Very pretty wine of medium intensity. Smooth. Mature. Finishes abruptly though. Pleasant but not profound. Bottle variation strikes again.
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Very dark red in the glass with nearly opaque core. Very intense bouquet on notes of cucumber, fresh air and tree bark. This may sound bizarre, but I loved the inter play between those scents. With air an unmistakeable coffe notes appeared. I’m a sucker for wines that smell like coffee or tobacco, so this was just my style. The flavours were dense, sweet and chocolate truffle like, smooth velvety and confident in delivery. There’s so much stuffing and ripe fruit here, and the finish lasts forever. Full of finesse in spite of its strong nature. Simply brilliant.
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Massive, youthful nose of charcoal and red fruit. Vibrant palate of charred, sweet, sweet black fruit. Perfect balance. An amazing wine. Decades of life ahead of it.
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A heavenly night of Pichon!!! (Seattle, WA, USA): Served from magnum, what an unreal treat. JeffO referred to this as his "house wine" (he really meant his "go-to wine") and suffered friendly ribbing for the rest of the evening, but of course we were all glad he brought this incredible bottle. I was blown away by how young this was drinking. It was an absolute BABY! My notes on descriptors are quite thin, as at this point I was just drinking and enjoying the 1982 and the 1970. The one element of the nose that surprised me quite a bit was an amazing element of mint. I have never seen that in Bordeaux before, is that normal?!? On the palate this was powerful with a strong edge of licorice, but oh the texture! This is seamless, pure, and endless. I have never had anything like this. It was initially so primary, but in the glass it kept opening and opening and opening. There was so much going on with this. Wow!
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Tasted single-blind at 1982 horizontal Bordeaux dinner at El Bizcocho. Bottle provided by Rob Norberg. Bright disc. Medium-to-deep garnet robe with amber rim. Clean nose, literally exploding in the glass upon being poured (which was one hour after decanting). The nose dramatically stood out from the other wines in the same flight. A magnificent bouquet of cassis, dark plum, pencil shavings, Provencal herbs, underbrush, tobacco and cardamom persisted on this wine throughout the evening (more than four hours). Medium-bodied on the palate, with low acidity, similar complex flavors as for the nose and "lurking" tannins which allow a supple mouth texture. Long, smooth finish. Very nice with the roasted duck (with wild mushroom fricassee, potato gnocchi and crouton "farce a gratin" in salmis sauce).
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Dark red in the glass. 1 on the nose. Magnificent scents of dill, tea, and cigar box. Strong and port-like. Wonderful structure and definition. Ripe, concentrated and dense. This finish could have been a touch longer. But greatness is certainly present here.
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Andy’s bottle. Medium color. A bona fide grand slam home run. Gorgeous blast of black cherry and vanilla. Fabulously sweet and rich. Fully mature. Extravagant and voluptuous. Nothing subtle. The Pomerol of Pauillac.
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at aspen: deep brick. Lovely nose with ripe fruit, wood elements, eucalyptus. Very ripe, merlot dominating, great mid palate and soft tannins. Still has great potential.
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1982 Bordeaux retrospective (Capital Grille, Buckhead): This wine probably revealed more differences between my palate and the rest of the groups’ than any other that night. Intensely sweet and rich, but irritatingly monolithic, I’ve never been a huge fan of the 1982 Pichon-Lalande and this bottle did nothing to change my mind. I’ve probably had this 15 times since release, and it has always been wide open and pleasant, but, except for a hint of leather, nothing distinguishes this wine from dozens of other sweet, moderately balanced, monolithic wines around the world.
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Lovely, rich tobacco with hints of green bell pepper on the nose, the nose improved as the tasting went on, very, very rich fruit, smooth, elegant, lovely mouthfeel, lovely taste, long, long finish with lots of time. My #2 of 5.
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Andy’s bottle, purchased on release. Dark and backward. Improved as it opened over two hours. More depth than the ‘89 drunk alongside it. Not flamboyant at all. Some raisin elements. Very, very fine. Now, at age 19, I am more confident of its future.
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Jim’s magnum. The star of the 1982 Super Second tasting, easily besting the Léoville-Las-Cases. Very full color. Ripe to over-ripe, bordering on prune. Yet somehow very fresh on the palate. A huge wine for Pichon-Lalande. Massive fruit. K picked it as her #1 too. A great eighty-two.
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WOW! This is a silky smooth baby. Smells like currant, leather,bubble gum, meat, pencil, stewed red and black fruit. Mouth full of fruit. Perfect balance. Truely one of the best wines I have ever had.
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Chicago Wine Company, purchased on release. A great bottle this time and still very young. Huge. Secondary phase of development. Great balance. Room to grow.
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Hugh’s bottle, served blind. Gorgeous bouquet of violets and roses which persisted very well. On the palate, though, very light and short. No tannin. Doesn’t look good for further development.
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Tasted at blind Pichon-Lalande vertical at the Belgian Lion, organized by Mike Stewart. My impression of this wine is the same as 8/9/96 and 12/7/96. Specifically, it is very soft and very pleasant (very "feminine"). Parker dotes over this wine more than it deserves. Although this is a great wine, to my palate it is not of the calibre of the Latour, Mouton or even the Montrose.
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Great Wine Seminar, another bottle. Beginning to lighten at the rim. Very young but at the same time tertiary aromas starting to develop. Extra nuances. Intense. Fine but definitely not great. There seems to be a lot of bottle variation with this wine. Clive Coates: “ripe acidity, will last, tannins mellow, lush, rich and seductive”
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Great Wine Seminar. Medium color, darker than the ‘83. Big, exotic, sexy, plummy bouquet. Lots of vanillin oak. Fine mid palate. Plenty of wine here. Surprisingly, cut off by high tannins. Good future, needs 5 more years. And yet, today at least, not as classically beautiful as the eighty-six. Clive Coates: “magnificent, marvelously rich, tannins ripe and sophisticated, will keep 30-40 years”
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Color difficult to assess due to inadequate lighting. Moderate sediment. Very pleasant nose of ripe fruit, leather and spice. Tannins have all melted away. Pleasant palate of same flavors with long, soft finish. Lovely now, but I question how much longer this wine will last (low tannin and acidity).
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The undisputed star of the Pichon vertical. Opulent, sweet and oaky. Ostentatious. Big for Pichon-Lalande but not top heavy. Bursting with that specially fruit of this vintage. Finishes surprisingly short though.
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Very mature color. Spectacular opulent bouquet. Lots of cinnamon. Incredibly smooth. Sweet and soft but not wimpy. Long fragrant aftertaste. A superstar but probably will flame out soon.
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With B, L, D, L and J at my wineo meal with a lamb on vege gallete. Excellent wine. Medium bodied, quite smokey and earthy. Excellent persistence of flavour - nice texture and restrained power. Very drinkable and complex. Not completely blown away due to being too busy with the meal -v.g. meal - but not perfect die to the detriment of the wine. Try a plain steak or a rack of lamb next.
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Simply stunning. Can it be mature already? “Hedonistic,” as Parker says. Soft, warm, inviting. Complex aromas and flavors of the grape. Seems dominated by the Merlot. Not a blockbuster. But really elegant and complete. A delight to drink now but how long can it last?
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Dumb at first and quite savory and smokey. With air the fabulous fruit texture, opulence and complexity come forth. Wine doesn't get much better than this! Needs a lot of air. Outrageously long elegant finish. Very low acid yet a wine that will last for years. (at David's 30th with Pascale and Bridgette)
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1982 BORDEAUX (Walnut Creek, Ca.): Lots of barnyard and sweat sox on the nose, hints of sweet cedar, coffee, medicine, bark and wood on the nose, lots of soft acid, needed 2 hours to fully open, at peak. My #6 and Group#4.
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9 Bordeaux 1981, 1982, 1983 Pichon Lalande, La Lagune, Gruaud Larose. Showed too much green pepper on the nose for me, lots of cedar and fruit in the well balanced mouthful of wine, rich, elegant aftertaste, needs 4 years to peak, My 6th place, Group #1.
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1982 BORDEAUX (Lafayette, Ca.): Nice red color in the glass with hints of brick, lots of coffee and fruit on the nose, green pepper and coffee and great cab fruit on the palate, very rich, almost elegant, nice.
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Great Wine Seminar. Dark plummy nose with a hint of licorice and prune - intriguing hot vintage aromas. Wonderful smooth texture already. Long finish. Exciting future. Robert Parker: “a blockbuster”
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Chateau Pichon Lalande 8 Vintages (Lafayette, Ca.): Tasting of 7 Chateau Pichon Lalande. Hint of orange color and sediment in the glass, cedar and leather are prevalent with a fruity cabernet nose that has hints of asparagus and big fruit on the mouth that has reached its peak, so well balanced that it will easily go 5 to 7 years, great finish and aftertaste. Group #1 and My #2.
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3/24/2024 - BLam Likes this wine: 97 Points
It was the wine of the night in Jim's BD dinner. As other comments shown in the notes, it was an impressed wine and still young. Thank you Jim!
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2/25/2024 - alexbhurst1678 wrote: 98 Points
Just outstanding all around...
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2/11/2024 - Francophile1 Likes this wine:
Super Bowl LVIII 2024 (Alpharetta, GA): Tasted double blind: In comparison to the '82 Lynch, this was a bigger, fatter, juicier, younger wine. This had an incredibly sexy nose with a strong vein of iron on the finish. It was so fresh, powerful, and youthful that I was blown away when it was revealed as the '82 Pichon Lalande (my wine). I called it 1990 Montrose. Of all the times I've had the privilege of drinking this wine, this was the youngest most well preserved bottle of '82 PLC that I've ever had.
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2/10/2024 - djhammond Likes this wine: 100 Points
For myself, the wine of the vintage from one of the greatest Bordeaux vintages of all time, and it kicks the first growths out of the park. This is the first time I've had the chance to enjoy this by myself, and really focus on the wine. From nose to tail this is faultless. The nose is perfection with old leather, blackcurrant, plum and cedar with violet and orange hints. The palate is seamless and multilayered with perfect balance, and the finish pushes past 90 seconds, and somehow manages to carry robust tannin to the very end without any residual bitterness. Without doubt, my greatest wine I've ever drank, and my deathbed choice. If it was possible 100+
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2/3/2024 - johnh1001 wrote: 98 Points
The best bottle of this wine I’ve had in a long time. Full and glossy. Amazing.
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1/10/2024 - Sonoffalstaff Likes this wine: 95 Points
Colour is bricking but still plenty of dark garnet. Nose is subtle and classic Paulliac. But then the warmth and richness rather than the more austere nature of most Paulliac comes into play. Definitely one for those who find great St Julien more to their taste. Hard to say what could be better about this wine.
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1/7/2024 - johnh1001 wrote: 96 Points
More mature than my last bottle but awesome flavors of coffee, sweet dark fruit, weedy tobacco and earth. Smooth and open in the mouth but without the glossy texture I recall. Still a wine in its prime.
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12/31/2023 - SpitzNV Likes this wine: 100 Points
Light ruby with orange rust on the rim.
Absolutely gorgeous nose of potpourri, musk, tonka bean and forest floor.
On the palate it's incredibly fresh. Beautiful red and black fruit! What? At this age?
So polished and refined.
And the finish lasts well over a minute.
Might be the finest bottle of wine I've ever had.
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12/27/2023 - essenceofreal Likes this wine:
Have had this many times over the past 20 or so years. It is still off the charts amazing. Can't put points on it as does not do it justice.
However, I would say based on this bottle it is at the very end of its glorious long peak plateau.
Decanted 1.5 hours then drank over 1.5 hours. Kept getting better. Probably could use a 3 hr decant.
Very special.
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12/25/2023 - M.Batard wrote: 95 Points
Opened an hour beforehand, but used the lone decanter on hand for the 1990. Exceptionally mouth-coating. Very long finish. Marvellous. Excellent pairing with the standing rib roast with ‘au jus’…
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12/25/2023 - bishopblock wrote: 95 Points
Drank at Christmas dinner in Wyoming.Enjoyed by all.
Color: dark ruby or garnet, slightly brick-y-er than the 90 we tasted alongside.
Nose: blackberries and saddle leather.
Palate: mellow, a little orange peel, leather, dark fruits… dad says “exceptional mouth coating, long finish”
Overall, we thought this was spectacular, and far more open/accessible/demonstrative than the 90 we drank alongside it.
Thanks @m.batard!
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11/26/2023 - srjans Likes this wine: 95 Points
Special occasion of 40th Birthday for nephew, what a treat! Ruby color with brown fringe, soft tannins, leathery nose, dark fruit flavor, lingered on palate.
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11/25/2023 - iBurg1229 Likes this wine: 99 Points
12.5% ABV. Medium garnet appearance but still retaining a nice ruby core - color holding strong at 41 years old. Double decanted with quick air contact just to get rid of the sediment. Thanked the heavens that this was a sound bottle. This really started to find its legs about an hour in.
Attack of cassis, blackberry, pyrazine character of blackcurrant leaf/green bell pepper (which I don’t love), cigar humidor, toasted cedar, anise, bitter chocolate, graphite, dried mushroom, and wet moss. Tannins are beautifully integrated. Acidity is vibrant. Medium density with with a soft, supple texture.
I’ve never crossed paths with the ‘82 Pichon Lalande until today and boy was I missing it out on the party. The purity and amount of primary fruit that this is still displaying is staggering. This has layers, depth, and concentration of flavor in spades with a relentless finish. I don’t know how much longer well-kept ‘82s have left at this level, but I’d say ride the dragon while you still can. I’m dumbfounded by how good this is. An absolutely mind-bending drinking experience.
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9/30/2023 - sdr Likes this wine: 97 Points
Spectacular proof that the best bottles of 1982 Pichon Lalande are not only surviving but absolutely thrilling, fresh and lively. This bottle was purchased from Premier Cru almost 20 years ago. Beautiful deep ruby, no orange or brown. Ravishing bouquet of bright black cherry, raspberry and cassis. Concentrated, so fruity it almost seems like a new release but with the roundness and complexity of age. Silky. Excellent acidity and finish. A perfect St. Julien - but wait, it's Pauillac. A revelation.
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9/11/2023 - VINNICK wrote: flawed
Sadly corked. Purchased at auction from Christie’s. Disappointing to say the least.
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9/9/2023 - jfpwine Likes this wine:
Clear ruby, barely any bricking. Pencil lead, earth, dark fruit, cigar, cedar, clay and leather on the nose. Full body, integrated tannins, very long finish. The nose is killer on that wine. It is excellent on the palate, but I feel it's at peak. I have a few left so time will tell.
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8/29/2023 - dlcolester wrote:
Still great body and color. Tannins very soft and lingering taste. Would still rate this a 98
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8/23/2023 - jlgnml Likes this wine: 100 Points
Les Degustateurs last tasting for a dear friend (Smyth and the Loyalist Chicago, IL): Very consistent notes from prior bottles. Incredible and fortunate to have 2 btls in my cellar.
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7/26/2023 - Rupert wrote: 95 Points
NadNash dinners: This was just beautifully harmonious - a bit of dust and a twist of green, but then warm, blackcurrant classic mature pauillac.
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6/21/2023 - NoahCap wrote:
Opened to celebrate the summer solstice. My first ’82 Bordeaux of real import. Supposed to be an amazing wine: #9 on Spurrier’s 100 Wines to Try Before You Die. Honestly, I would have been ok going through life without drinking this (especially at its current price).
It looked perfect with a fill into the base of neck. Cork was in reasonable shape and easily came out in one piece. The first bit went straight into a glass, and the rest of the bottle went into a narrow necked decanter. Color showed some fading, but nothing unexpected.
The nose was shy. It had all the classic dark fruits of black cherry, blackberry, even some mulberries, that were still reasonably fresh. Plenty of tobacco, wood shavings, graphite, and leather as well that smell like classic Bordeaux. There is a distinct green bell pepper note as well that I assume is the Cab Franc inclusion. It’s all there, but without being particularly compelling and overall a bit thin. Not much in the way of complexity that makes me want to keep smelling.
Thin on the palate. Acidity is quite high, a bit too high for my taste, tannins are very fine and barely present. No remaining evidence of oak. The flavors demonstrate nice fruit, mostly cherries and blackberries. Lots of tertiary leather and graphite as well. Finish is medium in length. Overall complexity is medium, to medium minus. Like the nose, the whole thing is just rather faded. It’s like looking at a beautiful painting through a dirty window; the elements are all there but the vibrancy, immediacy, and appeal are mostly missing.
What a bummer. I’ve heard this wine can be spectacular and I was very much looking forward to it. For me, even though I got a great price, this is really stretching my budget. My expectations were through the roof. And while the wine is good, the overall experience is a bit of a flop. I don’t assign wine scores, but if I did, this would be somewhere in the mid to high 80s. I sourced it carefully, and all signs pointed to this being a good bottle, but this is all part of the game when buying 40 yr old wines. No great old wines, just great bottles and all that. Oh well…
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6/17/2023 - pclin wrote: 96 Points
PnP. Cork pulled out perfectly in one piece, no sign of seepage, pretty much in perfect condition, the case was sourced from a great British cellar a couple of years ago. Had a small glass before heading out to dinner. Clean and expressive nose, flowers and tobaccos. Somewhat tannic throughout 2 hours dinner, continued in upswing but never reached the peak. Ripe fruits with excellent acidity. Finished with pencil shavings and tobaccos. This bottle was showing incredibly young for a 41 years old wine, this still has a long way to go. 95-97 pts
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5/21/2023 - Cailles wrote: 96 Points
20 Mature Magnums (mostly Bdx, w/ Unico, Vogue Musigny, Marthas): From magnum. Three 1982s side-by-side. Really bad luck in this flight with two corked/incorrect bottles (Ausone & Cheval Blanc). The only great wine was the Pichon Lalande (96+pts) which delivers every time all that Pauillac magic with tobacco and truffles and from magnum comes with that seductive burnt sugar/toffee note, which is to die for.
TN: Superb nose full of dark fruit, coffee, burnt sugar, minerality, tobacco. So precise and inviting. On the palate fresh red fruit, dark fruit, coffee, burnt sugar, minerality, tobacco, classic Paulliac and with that seductiveness that is captivating. Melted tannins, good freshness and an good balance. Probably not the most impressive, expressive bottle of this but still fantastic at 96+pts.
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5/19/2023 - kr522 wrote: 95 Points
Still a beautiful wine but not possessing the same energy and layers as prior bottles. It came after a 76 Heitz MV which I slightly preferred. This was my last 750ml, which I think was great timing, as it appears to be gently on the downslope (still drinking near peak in larger formats ). If you have it enjoy it now
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5/18/2023 - acyso wrote: 95 Points
Some Bordeaux (Chicago, IL): Nowhere as good as a prior experience from magnum a few years back. The perfume on the nose is distinct and beautiful, with a core of drying fruit and a modest hint of pencil shavings. Somewhat light on the palate with silky tannins. Fully resolved at this point, I'd be inclined to drink this (at least in fifth) sooner than later.
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5/18/2023 - Burgundy Al wrote: 93 Points
Top Mid-Aged Bordeaux ("Chateau La Grange" - La Grange IL): In 1982 flight. True to itself in every way, this shows mature and fresh black fruits with green bell pepper which balances nicely with the ripe fruit and cassis. Nose more engaging than palate, but very good now. Doubt there is any further upside.
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5/15/2023 - djhammond wrote: 100 Points
This is a no brainer. This is the perfect Bordeaux. I cannot find fault. Taste profile is as previous. This cannot be improved.
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5/6/2023 - sirpat00 wrote: 96 Points
Magnum Rarities Tasting in Zurich (Zunfthaus zur Waag, Zurich): From Magnum: Intense and polished. Fine tobacco notes support a ripe and concentrated cherry fruit. Also herbal aromatics, fresh and green in style. Fresh palate, but felt slightly off-balance. This is still great, but not quite on the level of the last bottle a couple of years ago (from 75cl).
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5/6/2023 - G_H wrote: 97 Points
Annual Richter All-Magnum Extravaganza: Consistently my favourite 1982 Bordeaux. Very young, dark fruit, cassism, blackberries. It posesses this Napa-Sexyness. Just plain delicious!
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4/12/2023 - JEP007 wrote: 91 Points
Took a flyer from my local retailer. Unfortunately, the cork was completed dried out. The wine was corked, but definitely tasted past its prime. The 82' PdB Paje we also enjoyed this evening outshined it.
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4/9/2023 - johnh1001 wrote: 93 Points
Recorked at the chateau in 2021. Perfect looking bottle. But advanced with major bloody meat notes.
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3/24/2023 - bbq_grandcru Likes this wine: 94 Points
Initially a bit disjointed but then with air this came into beautiful harmony. Very smooth and balanced, with nice complexity. Compared to 1982 Pichon Baron that we drank side by side, I found the Lalande to be superior but others disagreed.
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3/24/2023 - margaux321 Likes this wine: 96 Points
Color, clear intense red with copperish ring. 1st nose, classic mature Bordeaux, oak, cedar and roasted vanilla. On the palate, big body with intense complex depth, smooth with all tannins resolved. Amazing wine. We were split between the 1999 and the 1982.
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3/13/2023 - alexbhurst1678 wrote: 95 Points
Drank w Amanda and Bret last night in CO; in perfect shape; subtle opening and within fifteen minutes softer tannins emerged; hints of berry; long and subtle finish with nice viscosity.
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3/12/2023 - Ozen Likes this wine: 98 Points
Another great bottle. Even the next day it drank extremely well. This wine goes from strength to strength and is still full on. Sumptuous ripe fruit. Great depth and incredibly long aftertaste. It doesn't get much better than this. At its very peak but holding on to it.
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3/9/2023 - cos65 Likes this wine: 96 Points
Clear but dense dark ruby with a garnet rim. Perfect fill, mild sediment
This wine was almost too perfect to be noticed.
Rich yet resolved, lush, and perfect drinking with food.
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2/4/2023 - ash_then_chase Likes this wine: 95 Points
One of the most interesting wines of the flight. A hint of the vegetal presence, with an extreme balance of acidity, touches of musk. @ Napa Boys Trip
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2/1/2023 - Barsacpinci Likes this wine:
Wow! How can a wine this old be so fresh, tannic and powerful. Cigar box. I think some cab franc in it. Nice green pepper notes that aren’t offensive (usually is for me). But WOTN for me
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1/2/2023 - kr522 wrote: 99 Points
From magnum, this was virtually perfect. Fragrant, complex red and purple fruits, earth, and spices. Pixelated definition and a looong finish. In this format is at the height of its powers, as it kept growing in stature as it aired
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12/25/2022 - VERITAS wrote:
This served as the replacement for a 1978 Petras that was corked for our 2022 Christmas dinner at Westdale cooked by Simon and Lana ...rack of lamb...for just the 4 of us. This was the Christmas Eve was recovering slowly from her broken femur at the hip she suffered in Nov at Disney. Simon and Lana cooking was a wonderful helpful and much appreciated gift. This wine was perfect in color and structure. It tasted hard when opened so I suspected it would have a long life. Upon checking critics suggest to drink it between 2019 and 2075!!!! I wish! Despite the overall 1982s being considered very drinkable early this should be considered in a decade! Hopefully that hardness will be unlike many of the 1975s which never really lost that quality.
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12/24/2022 - spendergast Likes this wine: 99 Points
This wine continues to drink beautifully. Concentrated fruit with notes of cassis, black raspberry, cedar with hint of spice and damp earth. It is perfectly balanced with a great mouthfeel and barely perceptible tannins. Paired with grilled dry aged ribeye steaks. A wonderful experience.
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12/14/2022 - Hchatoff Likes this wine: 94 Points
Exquisite
Dirty
Light earthy
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11/29/2022 - PMJ wrote:
Traded for 2000 Haut Brion
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11/7/2022 - englishman's claret wrote: 98 Points
A fabulous example of this wine, which is no sure bet at auction given how frequently so many of these have been traded. But there were no concerns about provenance here and the bottle lived up to the reputation of the 1982 Pichon Comtesse. A voluminous nose, a picture painted with a palette of classical Pauillac notes - redcurrant and blueberry, cedar, and graphite tinged with a subtle allspice character. The cool character and classic structure make this such a drinkable - gulpable - wine.
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11/5/2022 - djhammond Likes this wine: 100 Points
Having tasted the full array of 1982 contenders, for myself this is undoubtedly the wine of one of the greatest vintages, and one of the legendary wines of all time. It has you hooked from start to finish with a wonderfully mature aromatic nose of blackcurrant, plum, and leather with hints of mint and cedar and the Cabernet Franc making its presence felt. On the palate the tannin is resolved and seamless with secondary and tertiary notes. The finish is out of this world with unbelievable depth, and it is still there at 90+ seconds, and I struggle to remember anything better. This just needs a splash decant to deal with sediment.
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11/3/2022 - RockinCabs wrote: 97 Points
Nose: This bottle started out with a big perfume of berries and herbs, and just evolved over the evening. Cherry, Plum, Blackberry and Cedar in layers that just give way to a kaleidoscopic nose at various points.
Palate: Beautiful middle weighted palate with powdery soft tanins, dense dark fruit, coconut oak, mint and cassis. The broad reach is incredible. Finish: Still so penetrating and long with gorgeous fruit, oak and spice all in fine balance.
Another sexy, classy ride for this wine. I hope all bottles give this much pleasure as this wine crests 40-years.
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10/21/2022 - PDavisMarble wrote: 96 Points
A star from start to finish. The first sip was delightful and it only improved over 3 1/2 hours. The nose had a bit of barnyard, but this blew off and floral scents of rose, apple blossom and lilac emerged. Round and red with cedar, camphor, a hint of mint and tobacco.
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10/12/2022 - Jeff Leve wrote: 99 Points
This is one of those "WOW" wines that if the bottle has been well-stored, never ceases to amaze me. Texturally, it is refined hedonism in the glass. Concentrated, lush, balanced, fresh, and intense, one sip, and you are hooked! The finish owns the day. Clocking in at over 60 seconds, the seamless display of black and red currants, plums, spice, tobacco, herbs, and mint leaf with its silky tannins and sensuality is what great Bordeaux is all about. Drink from 2022-2037.
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10/5/2022 - rwstorer wrote: 97 Points
Popped and poured from bottle. Initial barnyard on opening, and within 10 minutes blossomed into raspberry, strawberry, leather and earth. In the glass at about the 20 minute mark, initial barnyard completely gone and developing a sweet richness. Flavors of leather, solid black fruits balanced acid and tannin. Amazing after all of these years. Paired with a 45 day dry aged porterhouse which made this wine shine even more. We enjoyed this bottle for about an hour and it just got better and better. Drink or hold.
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10/2/2022 - johnh1001 wrote: 96 Points
Full. Smooth and amazingly balanced
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9/2/2022 - Capman Likes this wine: 97 Points
3 hour decant Great Norse and smooth Special occasion for my sons 40th birthday
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8/27/2022 - yaCellar Likes this wine: 97 Points
Appropriately entering middle age. Limited tertiary signs of age. Time has mostly revealed grace. A long life ahead.
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7/16/2022 - sdr Likes this wine: 93 Points
From a very good HDH auction bottle purchased last year with a bottom neck level. Lovely dark berry fragrance, light-medium weight and not especially concentrated or persistent. Nevertheless, quite elegant and lasts well in the glass. Very much in a deep secondary stage where the flamboyant fruit it displayed when young is no longer evident. Since there is not a lot of structure now, I think this wine was better a decade or so ago yet still a fine drink in a more subtle vein.
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6/10/2022 - dream wrote: 94 Points
More depth and flesh here and drinking quite youthfully as I expected more tertiary flavors. It will be very interesting to see where this wine goes in the future. I rated this 100-points on numerous occasions from 1989-2014 and still maintain it was a wine best drunk in its youth but we’ll see. 94+?
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6/3/2022 - Nanda wrote: 97 Points
From double mag, this is sensational. So young with classic PLL notes of bell pepper and sweet tobacco leaf. Rich, energetic fruit remains from this format with so much complexity in a refined package. Wow.
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5/15/2022 - englishman's claret wrote:
A small glass from magnum (decanted for about an hour and a half) showed plenty of life and classic cassis with slightly herbaceous accents. There's only a hint of the florality which the 82 PCL can exhibit. But would this really have blossomed with more time?
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4/23/2022 - fc1910 Likes this wine: 95 Points
1982 (A vintage dream); 4/21/2022-4/23/2022 (Hotel Jean Jacques Rousseau, La Neuveville, lake Biel, Restaurant des Bains, Avenches, Switzerland): Hmmmmm, another bottle with this fine mature finesse, creamy tobacco from cuba, a real velvety long finish
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4/18/2022 - dlcolester wrote:
Very smooth still excellent body, smooth and lingering after taste would give it a 97. Still has many years to go if stored properly
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4/2/2022 - djhammond Likes this wine: 100 Points
This is the only the second perfect red Bordeaux score I have given in 20+ years, and it took me 3 hours to get there. Recently I was lucky to purchase a full case at an exceptional price because of water damaged labels, but with otherwise perfect provenance. It is no problem as I only want to impress myself. I would recommend giving this at least an hour in an open decanter to allow its nuances to develop. From a visual point of view, it could be in a fine art gallery with perfect viscosity. The nose is elegantly understated, but it recognises its pedigree and is perfectly harmonious with ripe blackcurrant, plum, leather and hints of cedar, but with the Cabernet Franc very much in the mix. The palate reminds that you are drinking a Paulliac with firm tannin, but so perfectly balanced, it takes it to that perfect score. Likewise the finish is very old school with the tannin punching you in the face, but it is exquisitely balanced and with an unbelievable delicate finish which keeps creeping past 60 seconds.
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3/27/2022 - jlgnml Likes this wine: 98 Points
What a treasure. Hour long decant and the room filled up with a wonderful bouquet. Lavender, forest floor, a bit of damp air. Such a treasure to be drinking this 40 year old gem. Drink to enjoy.
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3/25/2022 - Beeck10 wrote: 98 Points
The wine was Purchased some 10 year ago with 6 other bottles. It was one of my preferred wines and I still think the best 1982 with Latour ! , I open the wine, decanted it, and wait just 15/20 minutes, I think old wines may be decanted but you have to start to drink it quick so you know the complete transformation of the wine and you can witness it from the start !
It the nose there was no oxidation at all, but pure old cabernet franc, but also some cigar and cedar smell in bordeaux ! The pencil graphite is very pronounced in the beginning, but the wonder of this wine is the balance between mouth and nose , it is nearly perfection ! Waaaauw really , after 1 hour , the nose still didn’t lost it’s power , the wine is not so long anymore as it was , probably this bottle was better some 5/7 years ago going for 100, but what a bottle it still is ! In my top 5 of old bordeaux bottles , with mouton 1928, vieux certain 1948, petrus 1957, and Latour 1982 ! This is what wine is about ,
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3/10/2022 - NickZNYC Likes this wine: 93 Points
Loads of pyrazine compared to other bottles of the same lot
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3/5/2022 - jviz wrote: 98 Points
This bottle was purchased on release. Completely saturated cork with a high shoulder fill. Decanted for about half an hour then enjoyed over the course of 2 to 3 hours without food in Zalto Bordeaux stems.
The wine was fabulous, nearing perfection. It opened with quite a lot of green pyrazines - so much that I wondered if there was some Cabernet Franc in the blend. This aspect seemed to relax over a couple of hours, yielding notes of coffee and cinnamon stick. There was also quite a lot of graphite pencil and scorched earth on the finish. The bouquet was marvelous and lingered in my memory both immediately and afterward.
The acidity was snappy and texturally the wine seemed fully resolved to me. I would’ve liked for a dash more weight of fruit. Part of me also suspects that other bottles might show more youthfully than this but make no mistake 1982 PLL is one of the all-time greats.
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3/4/2022 - paul195 wrote: 95 Points
82 Bordeaux Dinner @ Union Square Cafe all wines were purchased on release and double decanteted at 4:00.
Third Flight - Lynch Bages, Pichon Lalande, La Tour Haut Brion, Haut Brion
My TN in Jan 2021 still applied for both PL and HB. “The PL was a dark fruited, perfectly proportioned, luxuriously textured Pauillac, showing maturing complexity while retaining an energetic youthfulness of a far younger wine. The HB expressed the same remarkable vintage characteristics as well looking half it’s age with a bouquet filled with dark red fruits, intense cedar and tobacco, wet stone and herbal notes. A more elegant palate than the richer styled PL. Silky tannins, perfectly balanced, layer after layer of still youthful fruit, long haunting finish. This pair certainly confirms to me that well stored 1982s are far from over the hill and still show the magic of the vintage“
Pichon was the runner up in this flight.
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3/3/2022 - oxwombat Likes this wine: 97 Points
Opened in Courchevel. P&P but enjoyed over a few hours.
Absolutely stunning bottle - arguably the best 1982 I've had in the last few years. Not tired at all, with vibrant fruit coming through balanced by perfectly integrated tannins and minerality that gave the wine a beautiful refinement.
Completely destroyed the 1982 Lafite we had a few days before. This wine is at its peak and don't hesitate to enjoy it now!
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2/25/2022 - d'Artagnan wrote: 95 Points
Au chalet pour la fête de mon frère.
Ce vin est légendaire, le sommet du domaine selon plusieurs et j'ai eu la chance d'en goûter une bouteille magique une fois. Celle-ci n’en est peut-être pas le parfait exemple, mais tout de même, ça reste tout un vin!
Toujours plaisant de voir un vin qui titre 12.5%.
Un nez classique de boite à cigare et de cèdre, avec un côté fumé.
La bouche est d’une finesse exquise. Rien ne dépasse, les tanins sont soyeux et pas encore complètement fondus, de sorte que le vin garde une forme étonnante. Le fruit est encore sucré! La longueur est surprenante car on croit que le vin tombe, puis il trouve un second souffle. Je lui donnerais aisément 15-20 ans de moins. J'ai eu beau l'ouvrir plusieurs heures à l'avance, il évolua lentement mais sûrement vers davantage de plénitude et, comme c'est souvent le cas, les derniers verres furent les meilleurs. 94 pts au début, plutôt 96 pts à la fin. En moyenne, 95 pts.
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2/19/2022 - fclarity wrote: 96 Points
Tasted blind, this wine had a deep red/purple center with light red rims. The medium+ intensity nose featured plum, cherry, mocha, Provencal herb, roasted meat, and mineral notes, particularly in hours 2-3.
In the mouth, this wine was rich and ripe with great balance and texture. It had a "jelly-like edge" to it. The tannins were light and round and the length was excellent.
In hours 2-3 this wine was phenomenal. It was up in the 97-98 range. Interestingly, as it aired, it became a bit more monolithic and lost some points. I would not say it was going down hill as this clearly can last 20+ more years at this quality. However, it will say that this wine not only is variable bottle to bottle but also goes through phases. However, it is always some level of good.
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2/12/2022 - Thoughtful Likes this wine: 98 Points
Stored in a cold cellar since release. Fill just below cork. Cork broke- a touch soft. Powerful bouquet of cedar, leather and black fruits. Opaque. Medium bodied, tannins fully resolved, superb length. Restrained power. Full of grace. This bottle says many years in hand but unlikely to improve.
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2/10/2022 - Herb K wrote:
Typical of most '82 Bordeaux at this stage
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12/31/2021 - liber Likes this wine: 98 Points
10th of 12, decanted 80 minutes, level into neck, travelled cork, a wow bottle and probably a point, fine creamy fruit, full arsenal of tertiary flavours, very persistent with fine lift, little upside now but good for 10+ years. VFI (19.5).
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12/11/2021 - fclarity wrote: 95 Points
From a nice looking bottle with a VHS fill, this wine had a deep red/purple center with orange rims. The medium+ intensity nose generated blackberry, plum, mocha, brown spice, and mineral notes.
In the mouth, this wine was very round and attractive at first. After about 3 hours, it developed the missing dimension of power. This was in the form of attractively rounded tannin and fine grained acidity that gave it a great mouthfeel.
While tasting great now, this will easily last for a decade. I suggest at least a 3 hour pre-tasting decant. Enjoy!
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11/25/2021 - paulst Likes this wine: 97 Points
Structured and hearty with rich sweet layered blackberry; long textured finish.
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11/5/2021 - hprphf wrote: 95 Points
Served blind. Classic Cab pyrazine and green pepper. Right bank but smoky. Great harmony as last bottle, very rounded. 95
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10/23/2021 - 193jedo Likes this wine: 97 Points
Has lost very little if anything. 2 bottles remaining of 2 cases bought as futures. Gonna really miss this one
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10/18/2021 - Burgnick Likes this wine: 94 Points
A reliable 82 that always perform with truffle, dark currant, graphite and soil. The wine is resolved and expressive. Beautiful.
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10/16/2021 - paulst Likes this wine: 99 Points
Splendid; has it all; tar nose; balance; earth; blackberry; sweet long finish.
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10/11/2021 - Moonie Likes this wine: 99 Points
Another fabulous showing.
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10/10/2021 - Bobby Burgundy wrote: 98 Points
Just another spectacular bottle of this 82’
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10/8/2021 - Nicolas Beirens Likes this wine: 98 Points
It was the second Pichon Comtesse of 1982 I drank. This one surpassed the first in every way. Black fruit, leather and tobacco were evident. Looking forward to the third bottle.
LEGENDARY.
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10/2/2021 - jmoore431 Likes this wine: 96 Points
I gave this 100 pts when enjoyed 15 years ago and a 98 since then. Tasted blind last evening: a sweeter, plummy showing this time, still extraordinarily youthful, soft textured, EXCELLENT and very nice contrast to an ‘83 Margaux tasted alongside.
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9/8/2021 - MC2 Wines Likes this wine:
Epic Bordeaux for an Epic Birthday!; 9/1/2021-9/12/2021 (Paris & Bordeaux): This is straight up one of the best wines ever produced I think. There was some debate in our group on whether the '89 trumped but to me it was not a contest. This wine is bright and fresh and fruit and cigar smoke and elegant and powerful all at the same time. It is just about perfection. A real treat to get to try.
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8/7/2021 - paulst Likes this wine: 98 Points
Amazing; hard to get better; deep and layered; smooth and complex; earth and berry; long finish.
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7/4/2021 - sdr Does not like this wine: 88 Points
Unfortunately, this was not a successful bottle despite its base neck level (WineBid). Dark center, orange to brown rim, which is typical and correct for this wine at this age. Pinched nose, mildly pleasant. On the palate, too mean and rustic, the opposite of what ‘82 Pichon Lalande has been and should be. Drying out. I hope and believe this bottle is not representative.
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6/22/2021 - Jeff Leve wrote: 98 Points
If you have a bottle or two, or more, and you have been waiting, there is no reason to hold off. Incredibly sensuous, silky, rich, long and deep, the wine is aromatic, fresh and complex, with a finish that does not want to quit. Popped and poured, no decanting is needed here.
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5/29/2021 - tinybubbles Likes this wine: 94 Points
Beautifully complex nose here, full of soft savory spices. 94-95
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4/18/2021 - jordanj Likes this wine: 95 Points
Excellent, just lacked a little detail and body from previous bottles.
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3/6/2021 - jordanj Likes this wine: 97 Points
45th Bday 1934-1999. When Diamond Creek is weakest of the night (Zoom): Gorgeous perfume. I don’t know what it is with me and this wine. I cannot recall a more complex wine than this. Others described the Mouton as detailed but I thought this had it in spades. To me this is the perfect Bordeaux. A cornucopia of spices, red and dark fruits, leather, chocolate covered blueberries. The palate is just as complex as the nose and tasty. There is more of an acidic bite than the mouton but the finish is well over a minute. 97+
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3/4/2021 - Montesquieu Likes this wine: 100 Points
YPO forum (Joe's): Second opportunity to enjoy this wine in the last two weeks, and this time I really slowed down to savor it. Both bottles featured perhaps the best nose in my wine drinking experience - so great that I kept sniffing without drinking to prolong the magic. The taste matched the perfect smell. It was like drinking the purest/cleanest mushrooms, with some violet, graphite, and forest floor for depth and complexity. After two extraordinary bottles in close succession, this cements itself as an all-time great for me.
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2/24/2021 - Montesquieu Likes this wine: 99 Points
Wine with friends: 100p for the nose, 98 for the taste - magical
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2/9/2021 - Cailles wrote: 96 Points
Another wonderful experience with the 82 Lalande. This bottle (an Ex-Chateau 2019 purchase) was not on par with the last bottle some months ago as it was much tighter with less fruit expression but especially much less tertiary aromas. Don’t get me wrong, this was again a stunning wine and easily eclipsed the Margaux 94 with had in the next glass, but it’s not up there with the best bottles. The intensity and precision are off-the charts, the wine burst of tension and vivacity and will certainly have a long life. A truly wonderful expression of Pauillac.
TN: Intense, deep aromas of leather, undergrowth, hints of barnyard, lots of minerality and dark fruit on the nose. Very precise and inviting, less expressive than the best bottles. Same aromas on the palate with lots of cassis, more minerality at the centre with tertiary aromas on the side. Very intense and precise this felt much younger than it is. The texture is creamy and the wine is full-bodied with no excess weight. The tannin structure is firm but with ultra-fine tannins (less mellowed than truly mature examples) with a high and perfectly integrated acidity. The finish has a good length and is full of dark berries and minerality.
Decanting: It was tight from the start and didn’t move much after hours of decanting and following the wine in the glass. It would have probably been better on day two but the bottle was empty at the end of the night.
Glass: Zalto Bordeaux
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2/9/2021 - kr522 wrote: 95 Points
From a pristine bottle, and poured to ruby color. Lively and deep with notes of plums, prunes, cigar, and earth. Retains a sweet core of fruit and very nice balance, though compared to past experiences it didn’t have that sparkle/energy which would send it to a higher score...I had it from magnum a couple years back and it did. Still a great bottle, but I’d be drinking 750s
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1/31/2021 - joshabramson Likes this wine: 99 Points
Beautiful wine, holds up to any of the very best mature Bordeaux I've had the pleasure of tasting. Ripe, round, fully mature but drinking at peak with no signs of fading. So good!
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1/22/2021 - Romol Likes this wine: 94 Points
Ex-Chateau bottle, rekorked in 2015. Decanted ~45 min. Improved in the decanter and was very good over 2,5 hours. I think this was not as good as other bottles. Nevertheless a very good wine and still something special. 94 pts.
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1/22/2021 - Benoit Hardy Likes this wine: 94 Points
Nose on sour cherry, leather, a hint of cedar and cigar box. Very elegant.
The mouth reminded me of an old Chambolle. It's all lace. Delicacy is also the key word. The touch is silky, sweet. The wine is wildly sensual and feminine. Juice is fine but stretches to infinity in a feeling of harmony and fullness with a beautiful diaphanous frame. Beautiful, delicate finish on dried flowers with a delicate yet delicate length.
This wine gave me the feeling of a beautiful woman dancing behind a veil. Excellent certainly, but I expected more I must say when I see the reputation of PCL82. It lacks a little depth and a zest of substance to make the whole take off towards the summits. Given the condition of the cork, I do not exclude that it has altered the quality of the juice.
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12/30/2020 - Mjladha Likes this wine: 95 Points
Incredible!
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12/30/2020 - Romol wrote: flawed
Ex-Chateau bottle, rekorked in 2015. The bottle seemed perfect (label, kork and level into neck) but it had a slightly oxidative taste. What a shame! It was very good for a flawed wine but a rating would not be fair. I hope the next one is as good as the bottle looks. Fingers crossed.
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12/2/2020 - Ozen Likes this wine: 97 Points
Dear friends, I dont know who the optimist is that makes the drinking window show as a wine to drink until 2075, way after my passing, but please don't follow that advice. This wine is heavenly, and for sure in the stage of "a great bottle", rather than a guaranteed one. My recommendation is to enjoy is now it is still regal. This will be going down step by step from here.
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11/8/2020 - King Julien wrote: 97 Points
Decanted 1.5 hours. Consistent with last note, another nice bottle.
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11/8/2020 - englishman's claret wrote: 88 Points
The last two bottles of 82 PCL, both in good condition from different sources, really haven't shown very well. No cork taint or clear heat exposure, but a demure pencil, loam, currant nose that doesn't possess a great deal of volume or clarity. Followed over 24 hours, what *should* be present in 82 PCL never really emerges. Perhaps it's nothing more than bottle variation, perhaps it's the fact that so many of these RP 100 point wines have been traded a dozen times before consumption - I just hope that these bottles aren't indicative of the 82 PCL shifting out of its prime drinking window.
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11/1/2020 - paulst Likes this wine: 97 Points
Tobacco, earth and blackberry; cedar notes; brash with complex secondary flavors; long sweet tobacco finish.
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10/25/2020 - BradE wrote:
Beguiling and beautiful. From 375ml.
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10/24/2020 - Francophile1 Likes this wine: 98 Points
World Series Mondo Wine Event (Duluth, GA): Tasted blind. This was up against an incredible roster of wines, but it destroyed all of them and was the clear WOTN winner. It is an absolute treat to taste this wine again. From beginning to end, it is as close to perfection as one can get. This still ranks in my top 10 of best wines of all time that I have tasted.
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8/29/2020 - vinhonotte Likes this wine: 96 Points
Fine Wines SG - Grand Cru Discovery Pack (Delivered to Home): Medium garnet, viscous with heavy extraction, significant browning fading edges. Strong aromas of ripe blackberry, cassis, green leafy fern, angelica, ginseng, cigar box, pencil shavings. Rounded tannins, medium bodied, but intense fruit flavours of medium ripe cherry, blackberry, cloves, black pepper, savoury meats and leading to a back of somewhat riper fruits, purple flowers, cigar smoke and graphite. And the finish, a minute long of refined cedar wood smokes and ripe black fruits. Classic, and nearly as good as wine can ever get
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8/12/2020 - Cailles wrote: 99 Points
Ex-Chateau 2019 bottle, perfect condition, fill into neck+. This was an absolute stunner and almost perfect with just a hint of je ne sais quoi missing for a three digit score. Incredible intensity, superb definition, great balance of fruit and tertiary aromas, fresh and soft structure, seductive and elegant, with good tension. My feeling is that this wine in this form is at its peak but it is far away from declining. Still, this is one to enjoy over the next couple of years. 99 to 100 points.
TN: Black truffles, leather, tobacco, mushrooms, black fruit with black currant, blueberries on the nose. Same rainbow of aromas on the palate with a nice mineral backbone, some cedar and herbs completing the picture. Expressive, intense, perfectly delineated all embedded in a super soft structure with super soft tannins, a good acidity which is perfectly integrated, lots of tension and very good length. So much depth and so harmonious and elegant. Wow.
Decanting: Good from the go, didn’t need any decanting but became more expressive with some air. Hence a short decant should do the job.
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8/7/2020 - Lord of the Bottles Likes this wine: 97 Points
Taken to a country restaurant for our wedding anniversary. Open and expressive at the start. Nose of leather, game meat, underbrush. Focused, complex palate of cherry, morelo cherry, brown sugar, sandalwood, pencil lead. Graphite. Classic Pauillac. Long creamy finish. By the last glass the wine was a little muted (darker fruit and spice with a shorter finish). Supremely balanced and elegant. Not the most powerful nor complex wine I’ve ever drank but oozes class and a fitting way to celebrate. Reminds me of Pichon Baron ‘90 with a touch more class (see my notes). 96-97
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7/22/2020 - Cailles wrote: 98 Points
Aged Bordeaux Gems (with Unico/Heitz MV in the mix): Magnum. Tasted double blind. This was the third wine in this double blind flight with the Lynch and Mouton 82s. By then and latest after a sip of this elixir it was clear that we’re talking about Pauillac and the 82 vintage. My guess was that this was the Mouton 82 (which was a weak bottle and hence the weakest in the series). This Pichon was clearly the best wine of the whole tasting and confirmed my impression from other bottles of this wine I’ve had in the past: this is definitely one of the very best 82s. It has everything, elegance and sophistication, sexiness, complexity, precision, length – the complete package. It was a privilege to taste it from magnum to see how this wine must have been when it was younger. 98 points, easily.
TN: Expressive nose displaying cassis, dark cherries, burnt sugar, herbs and graphite. Intense, precise, sexy and elegant. Same profile on the palate. Masculine, yet sweet. Layered and focused. Wonderful structure with lots of very fine tannins, a perfectly integrated acidity and the right balance between creamy and fresh. Long finish of dark fruit and herbs.
Decanting: Double decanted only. Good from the get-go.
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7/17/2020 - sirpat00 Likes this wine: 100 Points
Mind. Blowing.
Goosebumps-type of intensity and incredible depth. A fistful of mushroom, truffle and forest floor right up your nose - with an uppercut. Underneath, dark yet fresh fruit, sweet spices. Some fresh herbs too. On the palate weightless with tannin molten away, still with tension and great structure. This is an easily a 101 score nose. I've been looking for reasons on the palate why this wouldn't be 100 points overall, but had to give up. Had the 82 from magnum recently which was fantastic too, but came across much younger showing less of these beautiful aging aromatics.
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7/3/2020 - pepmi wrote: 94 Points
Oh, what a wonderful experience this wine offered. Sadly, the oldest bottle in my cellar left standing after decades of collecting. At some point, you reach an age when you say to yourself, will I be around to open this bottle 30 or 40 years from now. As life unfolds, my drinking window narrows. So be it.
Such a beautiful nose on this wine. The color showed its age but not so much that one couldn't imagine what this Pichon was like in its first five to ten years after bottling. Cedar, leather and cherry in the mouth. A finish remarkable for its length and suppleness.
I may buy a case of the 2015 just to give me one more reason to live until age 100. Beautiful!
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6/27/2020 - sirpat00 Likes this wine: 98 Points
Magnum rarities tasting (Near Basel): This was part of a rarity old wine tasting hosted by a merchant and collector. All (almost) bottles were from magnum and double-decanted. The line-ups was dominated by aged Bordeaux, but also included two vintages of Unico and one from Martha's Vineyard. The undisputed winners were Pichon Lalande 82 and Lynch Bages 82. The most memorable, however, was the Pontet Canet 29 and St Croix Dumonts 21. The Unico (60, 65) were underwhelming as was – once again for me – Mouton 82.
Tasting note:
Tasted blind, double decanted, magnum. Beautifully roasted coffee beans, mineral notes coupled with ripe, intense dark cherry and blueberry fruit, mint, menthol and other herbal notes. Soft yet powerful and muscular palate, fresh and fruity and managing to square the circle of tension and power with delineation and elegance all whilst exhibiting laser sharp precision. The winner of this tasting, easily beating Mouton 82.
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6/27/2020 - G_H wrote: 98 Points
Richter magnum tasting, all wines out of Magnum: Juniper, figs, cinnamon, warm butter, cookie dough, beautifully sweet and long, Napa in Bordeaux!!
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6/20/2020 - jordanj Likes this wine: 97 Points
Wonderful Nose. Intense and complex. Very focused notes of mushrooms, roses, olives, cedar with ripe to becoming dried fruit- some fresh and some dried notes, reveling it’s current state in evolution. Still fairly bright and lively on the palate for 38 years old. Smooth and delicious. The wine just seems to evenly melt away into a long finish.
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6/16/2020 - Ara Kafafian Likes this wine: 95 Points
Blind, obvious evolution omnipresent with the brick rim, peppers, mushrooms, forest floor, sweet complex and exceptionally long, has that aged Bordeaux perfume which I love. Preferably to drink before the next decade.
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6/3/2020 - BradE wrote:
As always, just a lovely wine. From 375ml.
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5/26/2020 - fcxj wrote: 94 Points
Still appealing, just less complex than Mouton.
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5/9/2020 - gothamfreerider Likes this wine: 99 Points
To the Bordeaux gods: thank you. Last three bottles left from case. Silky & incredible length. Beautiful notes: berry& chocolate. May I repeat again, wow length!
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4/14/2020 - Cailles wrote: 96 Points
After a marvelous bottle last year (scored 99), I had high hopes for another bottle from the same batch. Although it didn’t reach the same level it was still great. This wine is close to its peak with the most beautiful left bank aromatics with a potpourri of dark berries and tertiary aromas embedded in a soft structure and with great length. In the best moments it had intensity, depth and tension and was at 97/98 points. Overall, this bottle had a tad less precision and harmony and showed not consistent over a few hours – at first it was too young and wild and after three hours the structure softened but the aromatics where less impressive. But it’s splitting hairs… easily a 96+ point experience just a tad short of the exceptional category.
TN: Medium+ expressive nose with a medium+ intensity and precision. Wonderful cassis fruit, black- and blueberries mixed with lots of tobacco and with time more truffles, mushrooms and forest floor. Same aromas along more herbal notes, iodine, dark red fruit, leather and animal notes on the palate. More expressive than on the nose, good intensity and tension, medium+ precision, medium+ length. The tannins are ripe and fine but the wine needed air to soften and seemed too young at first. The acidity is pronounced and only with time got better integrated. Overall not as harmonious and perfect as the last bottle but still great.
Decanting: This bottle needed a good 90 minutes in the decanter to fully open up (same as the last bottle). But every bottle will be different at this stage.
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4/11/2020 - fclarity wrote: 96 Points
From a bottle with a high shoulder fill, this wine had a very deep red center and oranging rims. It looks much the way it did 10 years ago. The medium+ intensity nose offers up forest floor, blackberry, and a hint of menthol at first. After a few hours in a decanter it refocused on mocha, blackberries, black spices, and figs.
In the mouth, this was gorgeously refined at first but lacked a bit of power. As it aired, it grew a stronger and stronger spine but never lost its elegance. It became even better balanced.
Like many great wines, this bottle went through a lot of phases. Don't hesitate to give it a lot of air. You will be glad you did. While I have confidence that this wine will last for a decade+, there was a high-toned element to this bottle that could throw off the delicate balance of this wine if it becomes more dominant. Thus, I would be inclined to start drinking my stash of this to obtain more data points.
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4/6/2020 - LordOfGlencoe Likes this wine:
First of many wines I tasted during the Spring 2020 lockdown in Zürich. Strong mushroom on the nose. Very nice tertiary aromas. Great tension and red fruit. Filigrane tannins and structure. More and more molten red fruit (strawberry) over time. Later I started tasting burnt sugar.
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4/4/2020 - gsquireh Likes this wine: 98 Points
An almost 39 year old wine to celebrate our 39th wedding anniversary.
A classic and world class wine for a classic and world class wife as we celebrated at home because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Your loss Thomas Keller as we had to cancel our evening at The Tak Room in NYC.
I drank this wine twenty years ago when she (the wine) was just 18. Today, after decanting for forty five minutes, we savored again the endless stream of the four "c's" - currant, cassis, coffee and cedar. This merlot laden forest floor beauty gives credence to laying down your wines. As a result of the merlot and not the laying down, the amber color is deceptive, as you might think this wine is fading. Wrong. Complex, concentrated, the herbs and spices coat your mouth and linger lovingly with a hint of another "c", chocolate. Not much more to say, if you have a bottle, glory with her on a special occasion and fine dinner or save her for a special evening during the next ten to fifteen years.
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3/3/2020 - Wine by Bok wrote: 100 Points
I have drank at least a dozen of this gem in my life, and even in blind tasting it was much better than most first growth, I ranked it just behind Petrus 82 and Latour 82, ahead of Mouton 82 🙂 The fruits was powerful, but certainly not overpowering, it had this feminine side that just “overpowered” the more powerful wines, like l’Evangile 82 that I just reported.
more tasting note in finewines.com.sg
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2/27/2020 - LB88 wrote: 96 Points
Great bottle that just got better after it opened with more air. Still has many more years ahead!
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2/18/2020 - englishman's claret wrote: 93 Points
The weakest showing for an 82 Pichon Comtesse yet, we followed this bottle for about 2 hours (in the glass) after uncorking. As usual, I liked the cassis and pencil composition, but it didn't hit the highs that 82 PCL usually does.
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2/3/2020 - Edclr Likes this wine: 93 Points
This too, along with the Cheval Blanc, is beginning to show signs of advanced age, but this is quite a bit more lively than the Cheval. Fruit still good, finish long, but its not the same wine as the last bottle was, or the other 22 from my stash. One bottle left, and hope it shows well.
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2/2/2020 - Ozen Likes this wine: 98 Points
This remains a ridiculously attractive wine. It envelopes your taste buds like a cloak, smothers you with love, thick rich ripe fruit, produce of an incredibly rich summer. Its there to please and please. What a wonderful wine this is. Its past its peak, as youth is fading but its still today nothing short of amazing.
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2/2/2020 - Jeff Leve wrote: 100 Points
If you have the disposable income or are lucky enough to have friends sitting on a bottle or two of this elixir, pop a cork. This is what mature Bordeaux at its best is all about. Elegant sensuous, balanced, complex, refined, regal, full, rich and deep, the fruit keeps on coming, building, expanding and pushing you to take another sip. But take your time as wine does not get much better than this.
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1/20/2020 - PanosKakaviatos Likes this wine: 98 Points
Bordeaux 1982: not quite 40 years on (Chez Konstantina): Paired with the 1st growth of Château Margaux, this wine gave it more than just a good run. Such intensity of aromas, such depth and elegance on the palate, such length. I have enjoyed this wine before, luckily, and was expecting something special and last evening did not disappoint. The sheer pleasing complexity of oranges, Clafoutis baked cherry, Cuban cigar, hints of leather and floral aspects just kept leaping out of the glass and purring on the palate. Superb! Interestingly enough, prices for this wine are matching prices for the 1982 Margaux, tasted alongside, with a wonderful d'affinois cheese aux truffes ...
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1/19/2020 - europat55 wrote: 95 Points
Nose: 96 Palate: 94
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1/1/2020 - dthompson wrote: 92 Points
With Les & Mike. last of 6 bottles i bought in 1985 for $19. Still had some life left. Parker rated this 100. Had a bottle in 2000 which is easily the best bottle of wine I have ever had. The wine was so good, my guest and I were speechless. Funny how you never forget a bottle that good.
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12/17/2019 - Turnmeroyalblue Likes this wine: 98 Points
Tasted alongside the Montrose and this shone. More feminine, elegant, complex with a longer finish. Dark fruits, can almost taste the terroir, truffles, forest floor. Nice balance. Will drink again.
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12/14/2019 - wineappreciation wrote: 93 Points
Low shoulder fill so perhaps prior heat exposure but still lovely; Blackberry, apricot, leather, mushroom; rich, thick, sinuous, luscious, slightly stewed, bold yet silky, exceedingly long mouth-coating finish
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12/13/2019 - europat55 wrote: 92 Points
Pichon Lalande & Pichon Baron from 1982-1990 Vertical (Andre and Sabine's House, Mountain View, CA): Nose: B++ Palate: A-
My #7, Group's #5 (66 pts). Tasted Blind.
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12/6/2019 - hprphf wrote: 95 Points
Zachy's BYO 2019: Indeed very nice balance and harmony. 95
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12/2/2019 - Burgnick Likes this wine: 94 Points
In 750ml. Drinking at its peak with dark fruit, soil, graphite, minerals and herbs. Lots of finesse and layers with good freshness.
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11/16/2019 - Ruby99 Likes this wine: 96 Points
Maybe just a point or two below where it was 10 years ago but absolutely wonderful
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11/1/2019 - dcwino wrote:
A lost Friday afternoon gathering – Mostly blind, some double blind (Blacksalt, Washington DC): The cork which was moldy falls in. Smells corked. The question is, was the wine corked or the dropped cork tainted the wine? Either way, this is a great shame.
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10/27/2019 - ShadowIII Likes this wine: 98 Points
as close to perfect as you can get, on a plateau with good fruit, currants, spice, cedar, soft tannins, long, lingering finish, beautiful wine with years to go
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10/19/2019 - Gcole42 wrote:
Terrific old Paulliac nose, medium-weight, sweet entry, still with lots of fruit, medium to long finish, about 45 seconds. Maybe getting slightly tired in the 750ml format. Only improved in the glass though, still lots of life left.
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10/12/2019 - Francophile1 Likes this wine: 95 Points
Tasted blind next to an ‘85 Sassicaia and ‘90 Beausejour Duffau. This was the best of the three and most distinguishable as a classic Pauillac from a great vintage. Incredible nose and a long smooth finish. However, having had the ‘82 Pichon three times before, this was not showing at its fullest potential based on what I know this wine can put out. Nevertheless, this is still a legendary wine and one to have on your bucket list if you haven’t had it before.
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10/11/2019 - Geoff7777 wrote:
1982 Bordeaux lunch (Cucinetta): Deep scarlet red in colour with considerable density. Exotic nose of coffee, violets, lavender, camphor, cedar and spicy merlot fruit. The vintage has given the wine a slightly roasted tinge to the fruit but it’s in balance due to the earlier picking/lower alcohol style of winemaking at the time. Glorious mature Bordeaux with a velvet texture and mouthfeel. As great as it’s reputation.
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10/10/2019 - jlgnml wrote: 98 Points
OMG. What a bouquet of smell. Just outstanding. Brilliant color, at its pinnacle of optimum drinking, tour de force, lasting on the palate and with roasted lamb, to die for. Exceptional.
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9/30/2019 - TBean Likes this wine: 95 Points
@Bref double decant and cork it back 1 day before. Tobacco leaves, red fruit. Complex and fresh. This is singing whole in night long.
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9/28/2019 - paulst Likes this wine: 97 Points
Manura nose; smooth and sweet blackberry; soft tannins; long sweet finish.
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9/23/2019 - acyso wrote: 100 Points
Pausing for the Cause 2019 (Chicago, IL): From magnum. Put a notch in the bedpost for this one. I've read about this wine being sometimes inconsistent, but this magnum was absolutely spot on. The perfume on the nose is off the charts, showing some pyrazines, dried figs and dates, and a slight bit of leather. The palate is the archetype of an elegant Bordeaux -- it's simultaneously plush and structural. Slightly plummy and sweet, but not flabby. A touch of leather and more cedar round out the midpalate, finishing with some truly silky tannins.
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9/21/2019 - King Julien wrote: 98 Points
Decanted about 1.5 hours and consumed over 3 hours. Nose was nice from the start, not overly powerful, but amazing. Palate had outstanding complexity but started to fade a bit towards the end.
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9/15/2019 - dream Likes this wine: 96 Points
The eighth wine of 14 vintages of Pichon Lalande back to ‘61 courtesy of Mark Golodetz. Perhaps the best balanced wine of the night, it has delicious dark red and black fruits with excellent vigor and great depth. Fewer tertiaries than I expected but this finish is deeply satisfying with good grip still but also such a smooth texture with great opulence and such supple tannins. It will be interesting to see where this wine goes over the next decade because there is potentially more complexity to come. However, I continue to believe this unique and brilliant Bordeaux was so good young that it peaked about 6-10 years ago.
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8/24/2019 - seijaro Likes this wine: 97 Points
From magnum, good color and lovely nose after 30 minutes. Opened up after about an hour, super smooth and silky with no tannin. A soft and classy Bordeaux with a surprising amount of flavor, what a treat. It began to lose strength as it approached two hours from decant, but at it's best it was simply wonderful.
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7/7/2019 - BradE wrote:
Delicious.
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7/2/2019 - Winemaker51 Likes this wine: 99 Points
This was simply, stunning! It had a bit of ullage, and cork was challenging to get out. Very short decant, then served. Wow! Ethereal aromas of sweet breads, forest floor, Pauillac pencil lead, blackcherries (no doubt from the Merlot). Fruit still there, elegant, soft, intoxicating. Went well with my Bison steak. Very tempted to find Magnums. Yes, drink the 750’s now! RP was right about this wine (100 Points)
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6/21/2019 - Collector1855 wrote: 97 Points
Consistent with my previous note. Wonderful mature Claret with beautiful nose of forest floor, autumn leaves, cake and spices. Palate is very tame now, the tannins almost too soft. Time to drink up these beauties.
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6/15/2019 - VlgJeff wrote: 91 Points
Dinner with the W's and B's (Cafe Matisse in Rutherford, NJ): Decanted for about 1.5 hours. Shared at a dinner with 5 drinkers, so one glass each. A wonderfully long-lived classic Bordeaux. This bottle was all about graceful aging, but aging none the less. The bouquet yielded lots of cedar and some tobacco. These followed on to the medium bodied palate, along with an earthy note, some red fruit, and a bit more acidity than needed to balance. The finish was smooth, but "cedar heavy". Will continue to age and probably lose fruit for many years to come. I'm thinking that my personal sweet spot for this wine may have been about 10 years ago...
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6/12/2019 - SimonG wrote: 95 Points
82 Bordeaux (Piccolino, Liverpool Street Stn, London): Mellow, dark red fruit and a touch of green pepper. Fresh and elegant. Densely silky. Very poised and complete. Classic whilst still being a little racy. *****
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5/25/2019 - Burgnick Likes this wine: 95 Points
In 6L format. Tobacaco, forest, smoke, and sweet dark fruit on the nose. Palate was silky and expressive. A joy to drink.
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4/25/2019 - La Flama Blanca Likes this wine: 97 Points
Gorgeous ripe blue and red fruit vapors permeate from the glass along with notes of cocoa, violets and cigar box. Complex and incredibly balanced, this wine checks all the boxes. The wine is pure finesse and stands toe to toe with the Giants of '82.
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4/21/2019 - King Julien wrote: 96 Points
Decanted 3 hours and drank over 3 hours following. Nose was nice but weak and stayed that way. Palate opened up with lots of fruit and complexity, great length. Hard not to expect some bottle variance with a wine of this age, relative to some previous amazing bottles.
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4/9/2019 - HENNO1 wrote: 97 Points
Tasted alongside an 83 comtesse and 82 Léoville barton. The 82 comtesse won out ahead of the barton and a little further behind the 83 comtesse. What can you say about this wine - simply excellent, stunning. The wine has years to go with lots of fruit. At the price point, I think the Barton is very good value in comparison but I really did prefer the comtesse.
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3/9/2019 - sdr Likes this wine: 97 Points
A breathtakingly gorgeous bottle, sourced a few years ago from Wine Watch, where the three elements of perfume, flavor and texture were all 97 point experiences. For a number of years I feared this vintage of P-L was fading but recently I am reassured it is clearly at peak from good bottles. It’s all about the luscious and sweet blueberry fruit and silky mouth feel, more Merlot than Cabernet Sauvignon. As usual, it seems impossible that this is Pauillac. Before #metoo, you could say it was feminine, in the best sense.
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1/6/2019 - Ozen Likes this wine: 98 Points
Even at this age, this still is as good as it gets, even today. What an incredible wine this is: so pure, rich, complex, layers of fruit, overwhelmingly beautiful. Stunning legend.
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12/21/2018 - dcwino wrote: flawed
Holiday Dinner - Champ, Burg, Piedmont, Rayas and a ringer, Bordeaux and etc. (Officina - Washington D.C.): Corked, so darn fresh, extra shame!
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12/6/2018 - Cailles wrote: 99 Points
I expected the worst when the cork crumbled despite gently removing it with a blade corkscrew. But no problem here: the wine was singing. Great aromatic profile (tertiary & fruit) + depth + precision + elegance + harmony + length + tension - everything is there and quite perfect. This wine is still going strong - at least for well kept bottles. My and the groups WOTN. A humbling experience to taste this beauty.
TN: A dream nose (although it needed some time in the glass to get there) which boasts aromas of leather, tobacco, sous bois, wet forest floor, black truffles, mushrooms, black currant and blueberries. Nice intensity, nicely balanced and full of life. Same aromatics on the palate with some additional mineral notes of graphite and pencil shavings and some cedar wood. With time all tertiary aromas became more intense and drifted into the truffles spectrum (which for me is the best there is) and the fruit gained too. The structural frame is impeccable with fully integrated tannins and a lively acidity. Long finish and everything is in perfect harmony. A „wow“ wine.
Decanting: PnPed, then put into a decanter and consumed over three plus hours. Good from the start but it definitely improved two or three notches with time in the glass. This particular bottle would have needed one or two hours in the decanter.
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12/1/2018 - sirpat00 Likes this wine: 97 Points
What a venerable moment!
Opened and decanted, but poured immediately. Pretty intense (medium+) nose with great breadth of aromas. Initially heavy on meat, wet tobacco, earth, leather, cooked mushrooms. But also black or dark berries, graphite and gingerbread spices. Good precision here, getting sharper over time and in fact even more seductive. Easily maintains intensity and flavour complexity even over 2, 3h in the glass which is testament to a rock solid fabric.
Tannins have molten away but are still noticable in the structure. Surprising freshness still. Immense complexity on the palate, fully keeping the promise made to the nose. Having said that, the only minor negative was a slightly watery texture - although this probably comes as no surprise given the age.
I will for quite some time to come think back in awe and cherrish the first time I tasted a true wine legend.
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11/17/2018 - jamesdlandis Likes this wine: 92 Points
Drunk onboard ship in midst of transatlantic crossing (Lisbon/Ft. Lauderdale), joined by the ship's head sommelier (who had stored my bottle and then opened it at table), accompanied by another wine-loving couple and paired with venison and sirloin and grilled tuna.
The bottle had been bought as a future ($15 a bottle for two cases) and was the final bottle from the first case (and the first opened from that case for at least five years).
There was about an inch of ullage. The cork was half-saturated and broke in two in its extraction. The sommelier had to withdraw his ah so and go to his trusty waiter's corkscrew, whose worm is, like all on that instrument, quite short. But with some reddening of his face (from effort and anxiety), he managed to get all but two small specks of cork out. The wine was then decanted without the available screen and poured into the decanter with its brilliant, dark color a seemingly defiant answer to any doubts that had arisen in regard to the weak cork (typical, in my experience of corks in old, red Bordeaux; corks in Italian wines and American reds and Bordeaux whites and some Australian whites of this (35+) age or older tend, in general, to fare better.
The wine in the glass was dark at its core with very little fading at its edge. It was very much the color of a young red of most any varietal (that doesn't show purple).
The aroma was enveloping if not intense and, as all agreed, classic (though I noticed some sous bois more typical of Burgundies; a good thing, from my point of view).
It was in the mouth that the wine was a bit disappointing. The tannins seemed to have faded so far beyond the fruit (and to have taken some of the fruit with them) that the wine lacked, as someone there said, a "punch." For me, it was a richness that was missing as well as a satisfying finish.
Well, all it needed was more air, more time.
Over the course of an hour and a half, with no other red wine at table (so each sip was precious), this old wine opened up and gained strength and wowed in particular our guest who had complained the most about it. He went from its greatest detractor to its most insistent supporter.
I--with another entire, unopened case of this in my cellar back home--was the wine's biggest skeptic. I had wanted (and had wanted to share) greatness. But in the end I felt what was great was (the idea of) our drinking a 1982 Pichon Lalande on a ship in the middle of the Atlantic. The wine itself was a fading beauty, probably better than anything we might have found on the ship's wine list (important and costly wines, but so much younger than this one and, for me, not ready and too expensive to boot) but moving toward its final (though years away) dance.
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11/10/2018 - Erik12000 wrote:
A great wine! Cedar, tobacco and dark fruit on the nose. Full bodied, rich fruit, integrated soft tannins, long taste. Probably at its peak now.
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10/17/2018 - Quiet Lion Likes this wine: 98 Points
Decanted and served. Pristine bottle bought at auction, very top shoulder, cork solid and stained almost to the top. Singing right away with a delicate nose of fine herbs. Full and balances on the palate with plenty of mature fruit. Very long finish with a little tart apple peel appearing as the fruit slowly fades. Consistent over an hour. What a youthful '82. A treasure and a treat.
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10/13/2018 - sdr Likes this wine: 95 Points
Another great bottle of ‘82 Pichon Lalande, courtesy of Wine Watch. Excellent color for age although no longer impenetrable. I would have taken this for ‘82 Léoville Las Cases - but that wine never seems to emerge like this one. If you want to quibble you could say it lacks complexity since the flavor and aroma is basically blackberry and dark raspberry. But the intensity of the perfectly ripe fruit is simply ravishing and never fades in the glass. The tannins are subsumed in the fruit salad. Acids are a bit high, although with the right food they are not too intrusive. Charming, plush and graceful, a lovely Pauillac that wants to be a St. Julien.
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9/30/2018 - DrinkBordeaux wrote: 99 Points
Always a joy to drink, it's difficult to find a flaw. The nose here is as good as any 1982 Bordeaux. It was so generous, with aromas of ripe red fruits, menthol, cedar, violets, leather, and sous bois. This was a wine where you just wanted to keep the nose firmly planted in the glass. It was just as good on the palate. Everything is there...balance, elegance, sweetness, freshness... This continues to be in a great place, and with perfect bottles like this one, it's clear that this is still drinking at or near its peak.
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9/20/2018 - rossi.wine wrote: 98 Points
Hardly any discolouration, dark core. Tobacco, pencil shavings, spices, dark fruit, green pepper - such depth and complexity on the nose! On the palate rather youthful - wonderful tannic structure, perfectly integrated acidity, nice grip, lovely fruit, slightly spicy and mineral, very long and persistent. A complete, near-perfect wine. 97-99
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9/15/2018 - paulst Likes this wine: 93 Points
Light nose; a little dirty and off balance; concentrated; light tannins; coffee; earthy blackberry finish.
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8/25/2018 - petitblanc wrote:
Austin Offline; 8/24/2018-8/25/2018 (Kevin's House): Color was very deep and fresh. Unfortunately, this bottle showed excessive green bell pepper and feces, generally lacking fruit and freshness. The structure and balance were outstanding. This was plainly a weak bottle, despite good provenance and excellent condition. Not scored.
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8/20/2018 - Evilhomer123 Likes this wine: 98 Points
This is still performing beautifully. Leather, barnyard, earthy with a long finish.
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8/11/2018 - LB88 wrote: 95 Points
Open 3 hours before no need decant
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7/24/2018 - bestdamncab Likes this wine: 98 Points
Great Bordeaux (Yan's China Bistro, Walnut Creek, Ca.): Joe opened this wine and I decided to use it for my Tasting Note #8000. Nose of bell pepper, cigar box, leather, and spring flowers, same on the palate, big body, rich fruit, mouth filling fruit. held up during the three hour lunch, at it's peak or slightly over the peak, elegant, complex, secondary flavors more evident as the lunch went on, green bell pepper always present but added complexity for us, and a long, flavorful finish and aftertaste. Thank you Joe. Uploaded a bottle picture.
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6/21/2018 - RayOB Likes this wine: 99 Points
Drank at 67
Just WOW
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6/19/2018 - RockinCabs wrote: 97 Points
Nose: Wide open expression of Cherry, Plum, Blackberry and Cedar. Layers of nuance that evolve moment to moment with Coffee, Cocoa, Coconut, Spice and herb notes. Palate: Beautiful middle weighted palate with powdery soft tanins and exotic fruit and coconut oak notes. All of the nuance popping like fireworks. Finish: Still so penetrating and long with gorgeous fruit, oak and spice all in such fine balance.
Remains one of my favorite wines of all time, but tonight the class of the Mouton and LMHB put them ahead by a touch. An excellent bottle.
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6/19/2018 - englishman's claret wrote: 96 Points
Open all night (6:30pm - 3:00am), this remains incessantly open though it goes through a number of phases before eventually settling into a combination of all the best bits: plum, intense pencil, coconut, lily, a hint of cured meat.
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5/21/2018 - rossi.wine wrote: 97 Points
Tasted after 1979 Giscours and surprisingly slightly more evolved in colour in comparison. Fantastic nose - graphite, cedar, spices, tobacco, hint of green pepper, red and dark fruit. On the palate lots of almost juicy fruit, good acidity. Spicy. Generous, layered, round, complete. Soft tannic bite towards the very persistent finish. Fabulous! No rush drinking up. 96-98
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5/13/2018 - BradE wrote:
Beautiful half bottle, that hit the spot at 9,000 feet.
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5/9/2018 - Lype Likes this wine:
No formal notes
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4/20/2018 - europat55 wrote: 96 Points
Nose: A/A+ Palate: A
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4/16/2018 - phol wrote: 100 Points
Amazing wine even better than expected this wine was in perfect condition 100 points
Fully integrated tannins lots of fruit left even after 36 years
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4/13/2018 - kr522 wrote: 96 Points
intoxicating velvety nose and palate. fruit-centric and complex in a way reminded me of Rouget. not a powerhouse by any stretch but well integrated and beautiful. I slightly preferred the 90 Beausejour drunk afterwards, I think others preferred this.
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4/3/2018 - sdr Likes this wine: 91 Points
1982 Bordeaux (Wine Watch Wine Bar, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida): For me, a good rather than great ‘82 Pichon-Lalande, without the exotic flair of the best bottles. Slightly muddy, missing focus and clarity. Not ripe enough. Steak without the sizzle. But it was the overwhelming favorite of the group in the 19 bottle horizontal of 1982 Bordeaux, so I must have been missing something.
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3/31/2018 - fcxj wrote: 88 Points
Recent experience is these wines well onto the downslope. There’s a green, herb element that adds freshness to perfume but intrudes on palate.
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3/19/2018 - The Vines That Bind wrote: 94 Points
1982 Bordeaux Horizontal (Bar Boulud): This nose has cool blueberry fruit and an exotic sort of opulence. Mild spices as well. This is getting aromatically more and more playful and intriguing. Guessed Mouton on account of the great bouquet and it was Lalande, which makes sense. Palate is delicious and approachable. Integrated. Maybe missing the soily texture of the first growth Pauillacs, but hard not to like this.
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3/18/2018 - King Julien wrote: 97 Points
Decanted 3 hours. Another nice bottle consistent with previous notes.
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3/17/2018 - tbabes wrote: 90 Points
The fill was into the neck and the cork was pristine. A ruby core with amber at the rim. Bouquet was a bit subdued at first, and clearly not showing as great as it should. Having already struck out this evening with bad bottles of the 82 Gruaud Larose and 90 LLC, I reinsert the cork and take with us to Bibou! Improved over the next 2 hours, offering up restrained notes of black fruits, leather, and hints cf cigar box. Medium bodied, lacking the texture and focus of the best bottles. Too much of a risk to buy any more of this wine, even from normally reliable sources like CellaRaiders.
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3/16/2018 - Zweder wrote: flawed
Occasional dinner group: Bordeaux 1982 (@ Treeswijkhoeve, Waalre, Netherlands): Corked
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3/16/2018 - jkoenen wrote: flawed
Bordeaux 1982 (Treeswijkhoeve Restaurant @ Waalre, Holland): Corked.
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3/11/2018 - mye Likes this wine:
As good as wine gets. What a treat.
Completely firing on all cylinders. Earthy, mushrooms, Cigar, with plenty of soft mellowed out dark fruit. Tannins completely resolved, in perfect harmonious balance. It's a classic wine, and this was an exceptional bottle.
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2/5/2018 - King of the Blind wrote: 98 Points
Absolutely hitting on all cylinders. Mushroom, earth, loam, tobacco, and saddle leather dripping with voluptuous juicy black currants. Tasted along side stiff competition of 10 other wines double blind. Group WOTN. Average bottle price at the table was $500+. Easy for a wine to shine in isolation. Not so easy when pitted against other "Legends" of the wine world. I don't think the wine will get better with time, but, it has been on this same plateau for 5+ years already.
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2/2/2018 - bacchus of knockholt Likes this wine: 96 Points
Lucky enough to enjoy this courtesy of a generous friend. The colour suggests youth with a deep ruby with a brick edge. The nose has blackcurrant but with a wonderful floral and perfumed smell. There’s also cedar, pencil shaving and smoke too. The palate delivers everything you get from the nose, the wine has lots of fruit still but secondary and tertiary flavours too plus a punch in a velvet glove. This wine still has lots of life ahead of it but is delicious now.
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1/26/2018 - Fftjr Likes this wine: 95 Points
Absolutely fantastic. My last bottle sadly. Still plenty of fruit, mild tannins. A smooth, mellow, rare treat.
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1/24/2018 - N.Bonaparte wrote: 96 Points
Decanted for 45 min. Perfect cork. At its apex, just outstanding, all tannins resolved, perfect balance and finish. Everything is singing perfectly. Outstanding. Reputation not disappointed. Will hold for 20 more years.
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1/1/2018 - King Julien wrote: 97 Points
Decanted about 2.5 hours and enjoyed over the 3 hours following. Nose was nice but not as pronounced as some bottles. Palate was excellent and consistent with previous notes. Outstanding bottle, just a little shy of the best.
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12/26/2017 - Old Course 72 wrote: 95 Points
Last from a case, not the best bottle but still wonderful. May indeed be fading or could just have been the bottle.
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12/25/2017 - JF999 Likes this wine: 96 Points
Just decanting it told me the blackcurrant would likely dominate, which it did with a good contribution of plum. Really full-on fruit, and I suspect at peak condition for drinking. And several more bottles left...
Also gives me confidence that my storage conditions are OK.
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12/12/2017 - MC2 Wines Likes this wine:
Acker BYO 2017 (Tribeca Grille): One of the best wines of the night. You as anything, but still fabulous spot. Spice and pepper and red fruits and very intense. What a really stunning Bordeaux. CT window of 2014 is straight up wrong - this has many years of life yet.
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11/30/2017 - D'Yquembe Mutumbo Likes this wine: 99 Points
Best bottle of wine that I have ever had. Had this during a magical dinner at Komi in DC. Youthful right out of the bottle but very quickly opened up after a swirl and a few minutes. Smoked meats, pencil shavings, ash, moist earth on the nose; dark fruits, cassis, garrigue, and a whole host of other little surprises over the course of the 2.5 hours we drank it. I can see what people were saying about this being a bit past its prime, as the wine was starting to close a bit by the end of the bottle, but didn't do enough to detract from the experience. In a nutshell, how I wish every glass of wine that I drink tasted.
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11/26/2017 - King Julien wrote: 98 Points
Rough looking bottle but perfect cork, decanted about 3 hours. Nose was great immediately when popped and continued for the duration. Palate was wonderful for several hours after decant until gone. Definitely picked a winner bottle. Everything a Bordeaux should be.
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11/18/2017 - cnichelson Likes this wine: 96 Points
One of the most exceptional wines ive tastes and would have given more points if I could have tasted a little more fruit or maybe really been able to sit with it awhile—sharing with 6 people so hard to say. Also was busy getting dinner on the table. Would drink up definitely.
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11/12/2017 - jfpwine Likes this wine: 95 Points
Perfect bottle. Dense garnet color. Intense nose of red and dark fruit, lead pencil and pepper. Full body, perfect balance and long finish. This is so good now.
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10/28/2017 - Ibetian wrote: 96 Points
Stood up a week before drinking, then poured into Zalto universal glasses about 30 minutes before dinner. The nose is an wonderful as ever, a complex mix of cassis, black plums, old leather, mushrooms and more. The palate, though excellent, is not quite where is was when I rated a bottle of this from Blantyre 100, the only 100 I have scored on CT.
This is still a fantastic wine, but a bit off the peak in 2011, in my opinion. I'm sure it will provide an interesting drinking experience for many years, but it is likely to continue to slowly decline, unless it has been stored in a very cold cellar since release.
Alas, my last bottle. Good bye, old friend!
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10/25/2017 - RAD2626 Likes this wine: 93 Points
Beginning to lose some of its fruit but still fabulous deep color, lovely nose and vibrant taste.
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10/18/2017 - Keith Levenberg wrote: 98 Points
Ch. Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande Vertical Tasting with Nicolas Glumineau (Taberna del Alabardero): This has been a bucket list wine for me for ages. So thrilled to finally get to try it, from pristine chateau stock no less. Wonderful aromatics that have gone totally past the fruit -- mushroom broth and cocoa nibs and other stuff savory and delectable, eventually picking up some nuttiness too. On the palate it feels more slender than the '85 or '89, practically waifish, but it more than delivers in class what it lacks in size. The texture is buttery smooth, the material fine as silk. All the flavors in the aroma are present on the palate too, with that cocoa nib thing adding darker grooves to a fruit base that's actually not quite as pitch-black as some of the other vintages. One of the main draws here is that this is a wine with everything. Practically anything you could taste in any of the other vintages is here, somewhere, though so well-integrated and harmonious it's difficult to point and pick anything out. The other big draw is its pure finesse. There is more to this wine than to any of the others, but all of that is spun out from material that's noticeably leaner than the others and impossibly fine. A Burgundy drinker's Bordeaux.
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10/18/2017 - dcwino wrote: 96 Points
Pichon Lalande dinner with Nicolas Glumineau (Taberna del Alabardero, Washington D.C.): The 82 Pichon Lalande has been one of the most consistent 82s that seems to always flirts with perfection. It combines the hedonistic opulent fruit of the vintage with PL’s freshness and energy, i.e. bell pepper/lead pencil . Unfortunately the expression on this bottle is not so clear. All the components seem to be there but the impression is slightly murky. Medium expressive nose displaying decadent ripe red fruit with a hint of cassis, a hint of bell pepper and lead pencil, cedar, caramel and strong wet limestone like mineral. There is a hint of soy like oxidative note which is unusual. Excellent concentration, nicely layered, good acidity, nicely integrated tannins and a medium to long ripe black fruit, green pepper and cedar driven finish. Really enjoyable but not the best bottle I have had.
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10/18/2017 - JulianSkeels Likes this wine: 99 Points
After my disappointing recent experience of this wine, I pulled a bottle from my cellar and shared with some experienced tasters (including an MW). We all agreed this was a perfect bottle. It was very different to my previous note, with waves of rich concentrated fruit - together with tobacco, cedar and graphite. The mouthfeel and power was completely different. An amazing wine which we all scored 98-100pts. My only slight concern was that the wine seemed to fade after 30mins in our glasses - I would be inclined to drink up here and enjoy whilst still at peak. GREAT STUFF!
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10/5/2017 - capacious wrote: flawed
My last bottle, one of the great wines, and it was off. Brett? I don't know. Gave my lady a migraine. I had built this up to her based on prior bottles, primed her with 2000, 2003- and this one flubbed. I saved the night with a 2006 LaLa, but that was one expensive wine night. I don't think I will buy any more of the 1982.
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10/3/2017 - jmoore431 wrote: 98 Points
Remarkably, this has barely budged in development from my 100 pt note of 1/22/06 (my only CT score of 100 among 815 notes). Remains very ripe (just short of being edgy in that regard); cigar lover's dream nose and incredible breadth of flavors, rich and opulent. My note of nearly 12 years ago still applies quite closely. Great stuff!
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9/24/2017 - spendergast Likes this wine: 97 Points
Decanted 90 minutes. Rich and voluptuous with silky texture, notes of dark fruit, cassis, cedar, damp earth. This wine is still fabulous, although possibly past it's prime. That being said, I don't plan on rushing to finish my remaining 7 bottles - I'll be sad when they're gone!
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9/22/2017 - dream Likes this wine: 95 Points
This particular bottle is showing the dill and greenstalk side of this vineyard on the nose and palate. After a 2-hr decant, it began to show that silky decadence that this great wine has always displayed with notes of dark chocolate, dill, roasted nuts and liquid graphite minerals. Despite the green stuff, the texture of the wine is from another world and while not as complex on the finish as it was a few years ago, the beguiling nature of this wine is something to behold.
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9/15/2017 - Clauswf Likes this wine: 92 Points
Decanted for two hours and opened up nicely with typical aged Bordeaux characters. During the evening hints of class and star quality shined through but only briefly. Class act concentrated cassis and pencil perfume would come and go, both in bouquet and taste. The finish was beautiful and the tannins was magical.
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9/15/2017 - Old Vino Likes this wine: 95 Points
another great performance. so deep and profound. spice and tobacco intertwined with dark fruit
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8/23/2017 - Nutty08 Likes this wine: 98 Points
Reunion (San Antonio): Grander and richer than any of the other Lalande’s I’ve recently had from the 80’s. Typical pipe tobacco character of Lalande, but with a deeper larger scale. Youthful as in energetic, though clearly in a mature state. Fruit is still present but seems to be mature and tertiary. Soft tannins and plush entry—but so well poised and polished. Lengthy finish adding caramel, mint, and tobacco . Great wine—among the handful of best wines I’ve ever had. My wife also strongly endorsed. This definitely met very high expectations.
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7/2/2017 - King Julien wrote: 97 Points
Decanted 2 hours, and needed it based on initial tastes. Nose stayed weak but palate was very nice. Improved further over an hour with increased complexity, and then was consistent for 3 more hours until gone.
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7/1/2017 - Philip Yang wrote: 98 Points
Guess all the superlative adjectives are justified. Bordeaux at its best. Feel like selling others and buying this one. Still going strong.
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6/25/2017 - wineappellation Likes this wine: 100 Points
Getting mature but way long to be fully mature. With air, signature bell pepper, blackcurrant, pencil shaving aroma burst out with ever changing complex note of earth, leather, smokiness. Medium body on palate, perfecty balance, mellowed tannins. Ultra fine and focus, layers and layers mid palate. Hands up. This is Pauillac, this is the best Bordeaux wine we lovers ought to look for.
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6/13/2017 - Bigtuna Likes this wine: 99 Points
This bottle was in perfect condition - base neck ullage and good capsule/cork. Outstanding right out of the bottle. A wine of great finesse. Beautiful bouquet. Very polished on the palate. Everything in balance; a pure joy to taste. After 4 hours, a rusty oxidized flavor developed and it was over. Wow. 99 until the last few sips.
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6/3/2017 - Aravind Asok wrote:
'82 Bordeaux and Friends (Rene's): (Tasted blind) Richest nose of the flight; loads of cedar, some red fruit and smoke. Beautiful texture on the palate at first, though leaned a touch metallic with time open. Soft tannic finish. Tasted right bank, boy was I wrong.
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6/1/2017 - dcwino wrote: 99 Points
Mostly French dinner at Ripple - Champ, Burg, Bordeaux and etc. (Ripple Restaurant in DC): Explosive nose displaying crème de cassis, crushed blueberry, ink, caramel, cabernet floral dust, cedar and lead pencil. There is also a hint of PLL green that adds the freshness and complexity. Exceptional concentration, perfectly harmonious plate, silky and polished, layers upon layers of cassis fruit, no noticeable tannins and an incredible long cassis and ink driven finish. Absolutely decadent yet perfectly precise and fresh.
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5/25/2017 - DrZett wrote: 94 Points
Great 1982 vs 1990 Vintage Tasting (Rare-Bordeaux-Weine, Wachtberg (Germany)): Plum, dry leather and dry raisins - beautifully ripeness, an amazing wine - but there is something missing. Structure could be a little better.
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5/17/2017 - Jeff Leve wrote: 99 Points
Polished silk is what this stunner feels like on your palate. There is depth, vibrancy, weight and length, finishing with a boatload of cassis, black cherry, tobacco, cigar box, cedar and olives that keep on going. Fully mature, it's hard to believe that according to oldtimers, this wine has been that good since it was released!
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5/14/2017 - Vinnut Likes this wine: 98 Points
Subsequent notes on this wine. Deep, dark garnet with some bricking & clearing at the edges. Full, forward, fragrant & attractive nose of complex & well developed, ripe fruit aromas of dark cherries, blackberries & plums with classic cigar box overtones of cedar wood, tobacco & floral notes of violets, dusty/earthy, pencil/graphite, aged leather, herbal notes of juniper, underbrush with secondary notes of earthy, truffles, dark cocoa, coffee, olives, spice notes of cardamom & sandalwood & minerals. Medium-full bodied with a very good concentration well balanced & silky smooth textured, very well integrated, developed & mature, plush & lush, ripe fruit flavors of dark cherries, black currants, blackberries & plums with spices, earthy, herbs, cocoa, coffee & minerals. Long lingering smooth finish. Drinks quite well at present and appears to have the structure & fruit to hold onto its current plateau of development for a few more additional years although any further development is doubtful. An absolutely beautiful Bordeaux at 35 years of age; possibly one of the outstanding highlights of the fabled 1982 vintage.
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5/4/2017 - JulianSkeels Likes this wine: 96 Points
I've become familiar with bottle variation in this wine so tried two (not from my cellar). Looked older than other 82s, with lovely tertiary notes of sois bois plus sweet blackberry. With 20mins of air a lot more cedar than expected, and with further air it became smokey. I would have scored 93pts and suspected a poor bottle. Opened a 2nd bottle which was much better - more graphite, body and some tannin - still more St Julien than Paulliac for me. 96pts (for 2nd bottle). Look forward to trying next time using my bottles.
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4/29/2017 - paulst Likes this wine: 99 Points
Sweet blackberry, rubber and coffee nose; broad and opulent; outstanding with long never ending sweet finish; one of the finest Bordeaux ever.
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4/23/2017 - BradE wrote:
A beautiful bottle of 82 Pichon. Just gorgeous from first sip to last.
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4/13/2017 - jsebiri wrote:
So good , that's what I am talking about
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3/31/2017 - tinybubbles wrote: 92 Points
White pepper nose, somewhat unexpressive palate. Unclear if shutdown or not the best bottle.
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3/18/2017 - Zweder wrote: 98 Points
Occasional dinner group: 100 Parker points (red) wines (@ the Librije in Zwolle, Netherlands.): Not so many notes, but this is an extremely beautiful and mature wine. Autumn forest, cassis, cedar, graphite, tobacco etc. in the bouquet. On the palate the same impressions. Earthy, beautiful acidity and soft tannin. A great bottle with a great wine! No hurry!
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3/17/2017 - King Julien wrote: 97 Points
Decanted 2 hours. Nose was nice but a little weak, palate was outstanding. Consistent over 3 hours.
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2/25/2017 - mbond4all wrote: 100 Points
Wow!, Compared to a 1998 Latour I tasted this has so much more to give. Tobacco, leather, chocolate, and still a lot of red fruit. It almost tastes like a dark sweet chocolate mousse with some brandy in it. Although I think it will not improve, you can still keep this for years to come. Superb!
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1/21/2017 - sdr Likes this wine: 95 Points
Nineteen eighty-two Pichon-Lalande is a great wine without a doubt. Although this bottle, purchased many years ago, may not be perfectly representative since it was recorked 1993, I find every bottle of it to be splendid regardless of source. Beautiful mature healthy deep ruby color. Superb and very deep bouquet of dark raspberry and black cherry, almost sweet on the nose. On the palate, assertive, both robust and elegant with very fine acidity and very ripe tannins. What's missing are any secondary or tertiary notes to add complexity. Could this vintage of P-L still be too young?
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1/15/2017 - Jeff Leve wrote: 99 Points
Pure silky fruits, supple, opulent, sensuous textures and tobacco, wet earth, cassis, cigar box, dark cherry character that tasted, smelt and felt great on your palate. Fully mature, this was poured after maybe 20-30 minutes in the decanter.
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1/6/2017 - dchain Likes this wine: 98 Points
Picked this semi-blind in the flight of Pichons. Wow. Deep ruby, no noticeable age. Dark cherry, leather, jasmine, black tea, earthy spice, licorice. Lovely sweet, ripe and healthy fruit. Great freshness and balance, coats the mouth and so delicious. 30+ second finish but just so balanced. Full of energy. The greatest Pichon Lalande ever made. Not even close to being surpassed by anything made under the new current ownership.
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12/26/2016 - Edclr Likes this wine: 100 Points
One of the best of the 22 consumed so far. 2 left. Perfect wine, compete in every respect. Still tastes fresh and young, no real bricking yet. Christmas Day with Dave and Beef Wellington, alongside 94 Bryant which was also excellent.
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12/17/2016 - Vino_Veritas Likes this wine: 100 Points
Tasted with Francophile1 and am in agreement with his comments. Monumental wine in all respects - from the moment the cork is pulled (a perfect cork, recorked at the Chateau in 1993), the depth of the wine is sensed. Incredible nose fills the room. Supple yet firm, smorgasbord of dark fruit and meat flavors with a long, long finish. Most remarkable was the sweetness of the tannins - highly structured and sweet, sweet, sweet. Never had a wine marrying structure with such pure pleasure. Perfect for the intellectual, hedonist and everyone in between. Decanted and drank over several hours with no drop off - opened nicely within 20 minutes and remained great all evening. Peak drinking if stored properly. Best '82 Bordeaux I've ever had and top-5 of my lifetime for sure.
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12/17/2016 - Francophile1 Likes this wine: 100 Points
I've been blessed to have had this wine three times now. However, I would give this 100+ points if it were possible. This particular bottle ranks up in my top 5 wine tasting experiences of all time. This particular bottle was perfect having been recorked by the Chateau in 1993, this was perfection from the start through the middle and all the way to the finish. If this wine is on your bucket list, make sure you check it off before it is too late. I actually like it more than the '82 Latour, Mouton, and Margaux. It is drinking in its peak maturity window and appears to still have life left on it. I was incredibly impressed by the length of the finish and the sweetness of the tannin. While we drank some good wines after this, unfortunately, everything else pales in comparison. In a word... Perfection!
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12/16/2016 - Peliot Likes this wine: 100 Points
Very special. This bottle was in great condition. The '82 vintage is peerless in my book and the wines are drinking perfectly right now. What I remember most vividly from this wine is the elegance and complexity of the nose. A captivating wine.
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12/15/2016 - aquacongas Likes this wine: 97 Points
Achim's Magnum Tasting 2016 (Berens am Kai 1 star Restaurant): From Magnum,
in great shape, together in a flight with GL 1982 (cork), reserve bottle was 1985 Phelps Insignia (96p). still young, firm and ripe tannins, great refreshing acidity, black currant with cedar and cigar box, starting to make fun, 96-97
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12/3/2016 - Ex-Ray Likes this wine: 100 Points
One of the greatest wines I have ever tasted, certainly one of the best Bordeaux! I would give it more than 100 points if it were possible! Amazingly dark and opaque for 34 years old, with no hint of brown at the edges; with immediate very pronounced sweet aromas of toasty French oak, cedar, hint of tobacco, cassis, all dancing together. In the mouth, flavors that build over 30 seconds, rich cassis and oak, roasted meat, mouth-coating but smooth and rich without significant tannin. Extremely long aftertaste, with touch of anise on the smooth finish. Went very well with short ribs. Tasted alongside 1990 Chateau Latour, which was also excellent, but this was clearly a cut above. Perfectly mature.
Ric
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11/27/2016 - didierja Likes this wine: 97 Points
Fabulous wine. Drank with braised beef. Still youthful, green peppers on the nose. Macerated fruit, tobacco, silex. Beautiful. At least 5-7 years left, if not more. Much more young and vibrant than the 1983 drank the same night. 97.
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11/24/2016 - paulst Likes this wine: 96 Points
Cedar and blackberry with tobacco; good length with complexity.
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11/19/2016 - RockinCabs wrote: 95 Points
Nose: closed a bit early in the night with generic leather dark fruit and violet notes. However once fully open this became a pleasure bomb of sweet red fruits, spices, violets, blackberry and graphite. Palate: the feel on this was absolutely regal as usual and the dense sweet cherry was followed by leather jacket, baking spice and beautiful vanilla tones. Finish: Long and filled with a melange of flowers blackberry and spices. Somewhat less compelling than a prior bottle.
This bottle did not get enough time to open up fully. The last glass from the decanter later on the evening was really nice and showing lots of layers. Another Nath Johnston bottle.
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11/8/2016 - DrinkBordeaux wrote: 99 Points
Largely consistent with the last bottle. Base neck fill. A beautifully matured nose of black currant, black cherry, cedar, eucalyptus, campfire smoke, and fresh violets. A palate that I would describe as complete, with equally balanced components. There is solid structure left, but it doesn't overpower anything. A long finish that completes the experience of a near-perfect wine.
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10/28/2016 - nywine68 Likes this wine: 94 Points
Silky smooth body. Good saturation and nice mature Bordeaux flavors. This is perfectly balanced. Not hugely expressive but more understated. Classic.
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10/27/2016 - WineTally Likes this wine:
A(ccuracy)=2: Classic, fully resolved claret.
B(alance) =2: Endowed with exceptional fruit, this was bit loose knit with less than perfect acid structure from the get go. Now with fruit fading, the result is short of the ethereal gem that one wished for.
C(omplexity)=2: Still rich and nuanced but not many layers.
D(epth) = 2 : great length and finish but not without edges.
WineTally Score [2,2,2,2]=8/10
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10/24/2016 - sdr Likes this wine: 98 Points
This bottle of '82 Pichon Lalande, courtesy of DrinkBordeaux, was fabulous and erased any doubt I might have about its aging trajectory. Incredibly voluptuous and sweet but in that very special Bordeaux way that combines great structure of tannins and acidity perfectly balanced with the juicy black cherry, boysenberry and red licorice fruit. This particular bottle was amazingly youthful and even better than all the previous times I have been fortunate enough to taste it.
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10/23/2016 - DrinkBordeaux wrote: 100 Points
I don't give out 100 points very often, but it was hard to find a flaw with this wine tonight. But while I'm not sure a perfect wine exists, this one was pretty incredible. The nose needed very little time to open up, and when it did, it provided aromas of ripe red fruits, fresh cherries, eucalyptus, cedar, violets, and a bit of forest floor. A friend at the table called it a 'sweet nose,' and I have to concur. The wine was equally impressive on the palate. Perfectly balanced, with silky tannins that are so well integrated. There is enough acidity to create a nice freshness to balance with the ripe fruit. The culminated in a smooth, long finish. This edged out the 82 Latour tonight, which says an awful lot about this wine.
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10/18/2016 - BradE wrote:
From 375ml. When it's on this is such an enjoyable Bordeaux. This case of half bottles purchased back in the day are a real joy.
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10/17/2016 - Comte Flaneur wrote: 96 Points
It had a decadent rich coffee and mocha attack. It had a surprisingly thick, creamy texture and was full-bodied and exuberant. This was a good bottle of this now legendary wine firing on all cylinders. It perhaps lacked the sheer class, poise and complexity of its first growth table mates. Drink now.
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10/17/2016 - Bigtuna Likes this wine: 97 Points
Magnum. Have tasted this wine a number of times over the last 20 years and even today is one of my favorites. She may have lost a little bit of beauty from ten years ago, but is still an absolutely lovely wine. 97
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10/16/2016 - spendergast Likes this wine: 98 Points
A rich voluptuous wine with great balance and finesse. Still drinking great.
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9/22/2016 - bestdamncab Likes this wine: 99 Points
Thanks to Derrald for the opportunity to enjoy this wine with a steak dinner as we both store our wine at 52 degrees. Nose of freshly sliced red bell pepper, black cherry, black currants, and cracked pepper, same on the palate, rich and elegant fruit, mouth filling fruit played well versus the bell pepper which subsided on the nose during the three hour dinner and became more evident on the long, long finish, at it's best so drink up. I favored this wine by one point over the Gruaud Larose.
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9/18/2016 - King Julien wrote: 96 Points
Poured into decanter and tasted. Nose was good, but not ready. Tasted 1.5 hours later, same nose but much better palate and finish. 2.5 hours after opening it was singing and lasted 2 more hours until it was gone.
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9/16/2016 - johnh1001 wrote: 99 Points
A wonderful bottle of this wonderful wine.
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9/16/2016 - Collector1855 wrote: 97 Points
66x Parker 100-Pointers from Bordeaux 1947-2010 tasted blind (Switzerland): Tasted blind. Medium brick. Here we go, after three duds from 1986. The first wine in the tasting that evoked a wow. Expressive nose of cedar, barnyard, spices. Soft and elegant on the palate, great length. This is approaching the end of its drinking window and it is understandable that this probably was a 100 pointer when this was at its peak. Great, aged Claret still, 97 tonight. Group score: 18.61, group rank: 12/64
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9/15/2016 - rossi.wine wrote: 96 Points
Evolved in colour but still fairly youthful. Expressive and layered on the nose - notes of spices, flowers, dark fruit, tobacco, graphite, dried fruit, too. Soft and elegant on the nose - fresh, with a nice core of ripe fruit, powdery tannins and superb persistence. Wonderful. No rush at all drinking up. 95-97
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9/12/2016 - dcwino wrote: 99 Points
Sushi Taro Dinner: Incredibly intense nose displaying dark fruits, crème de cassis, cabernet dust, dark flowers, a hint of PLL green, cedar, caramel and lead pencil. It is fascinating to observe the interplay of the 82 ripeness and PLL green/vegetal, ie decadent yet fresh. Exceptional concentration, beautiful layered intense black fruits, silky and polished, nicely integrated fine tannins and lovely long finish. Still remains quite youthful. This can please both traditionalist and modernist. Exceptional showing.
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9/11/2016 - BradE wrote:
Over the years I haven't had the supreme experience with the 82 that others have. But tonight's bottle was one of the best I've ever had.
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9/10/2016 - Bacchus&Ceres wrote: 91 Points
Bright shiny red raspberry, lead pencil nose palette slightly off balance with soft stewed fruits, no longer the jammy wine I remember, spices warm baking like, surprised by lack of fruit.
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9/10/2016 - Bacchus&Ceres wrote: 91 Points
Bright shiny red raspberry, lead pencil nose palette slighly off balance with soft stewed fruits, no longer the jammy wine I remember, spices warm baking like, surprised by lack of fruit.
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9/10/2016 - ShadowIII Likes this wine: 96 Points
rich, lush, still with a great deal of black currant and dark berry fruit, soft elegant tannins, long finish, still has years to go
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7/29/2016 - giba ochman Likes this wine: 97 Points
This wine never disappoint. No decant. Great bottle of mature bordeaux. Unbelievable nose of a mix of berries, some graphite, truffles and coffee. The taste is zen, with good acidity, soft tannins and a moderate finish. Drink now. One of the best values when I think about great bordeaux of the last century.
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6/25/2016 - le fouloir wrote: 95 Points
I've been nurturing this magnum for 15 years in my 55 degree cellar, having bought it at a charity auction from another good cellar. Drank it at our 25th anniversary dinner. It was a 100 on the nose. Heavenly, complex, and seductive. The finish was a little flat and less spectacular at the beginning, but rivaled the nose after an hour and a half. I only decanted the wine just before drinking. I think I should have decanted it at least an hour in advance. I'm sad it's gone, but I had to drink it at some point. It was time.
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6/14/2016 - fcxj wrote: 88 Points
Surprisingly, this particular bottle didn't do it for me. An overpowering tangy, olive-like green smell which detracted from enjoyment. Better on the palate.
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6/11/2016 - Old Vino Likes this wine: 97 Points
Again, no great wine, but great bottles. Recent critics suggest '82 Pichon Lalande started to exit its prime drinking window. Not this bottle. So profound, both nose and palate. Mature Bordeaux with tons of joy. Tannins resolved. Finish medium plus.
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5/28/2016 - Francophile1 Likes this wine: 100 Points
Memorial Day Mondo Event - Burghounds & Bordelais: How do you follow a '90 Montrose? With a perfectly stored bottle of '82 Pichon Lalande is how. The last bottle I had of this was cooked, but this wine was perfect. At this stage of maturity, I place this as the best I've had from 1982 even beating the Latour & Mouton. Only time will tell if the 1st growths will beat it as they mature. Nevertheless, this is a top notch 1st growth worthy wine. In the glass is has everything I love about Bordeaux and is 100% Pauillac in every sense of the word. Wow! This wine won WOTN hands down and it was up against stiff competition (no label bias either... everyone agreed it was WOTN before it was revealed). A memorable wine for the ages!
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5/27/2016 - Rezy13 Likes this wine: 98 Points
Burg & Bordeaux $100+ (Duluth, GA): Dark garnet core with brick rim; wet earth, sweet fruit, compost, so balanced, silky, aged, cedar with good fruit, mushroom; so good on the palate, incense, coffee grounds, honey comb, luxurious tannin; incredible, and still very fresh; knew this was going to be a monster from a great vintage that drank much younger than its age.
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5/19/2016 - hahaha123 wrote: 96 Points
Wine was very good at the minute it opened but declining in an hour
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5/16/2016 - LW31 Likes this wine: 92 Points
Out of jeroboam. Tobacco, graphite, cedar. All very classic and in order--lovely dark red fruits, full finish. A very good wine but not an exceptional one considering the vintage and format. Probably popping and pouring at event wasn't best showcase. Still highly pleasurable and at peak in this size
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4/19/2016 - LWI wrote: 94 Points
Pichon Lalande Tasting: Some brett, dark fruit, minerals. Big mouth feel, long and intense. No warmish -82 fruit, rather classic. Dry tobacco, long.
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3/30/2016 - RayOB Likes this wine: 96 Points
Drank at 67
Much more younger and vibrant than the previous bottle with a rich powerful dense fruit nose with spice and earth. Smooth long mouth coating palate. Lovely.
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3/23/2016 - Burgnick wrote:
This bottle was double decanted for 3.5 hours before serving. Nose was tight with a bit of flowers and black fruit. The structure of this wine was the best among the red wine. It just didnt open up tonight. Very young wine. Give this 5-8 more years. There could be some bottle variation in this one tonight.
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3/4/2016 - cooberp Likes this wine: 94 Points
Red currants, baking spices, pine forest, bell pepper, and a touch of custard on the nose. Lightweight in the mouth, and so fresh, with good length. Tannin to stay alive for awhile to come, but hard to imagine this could get better.
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1/30/2016 - Latache01 Likes this wine: 98 Points
I have been lucky enough to sample this one three times. One disappointment probably due to a flawed bottle, two times delight:
Unlike many other vintages of the Comtesse, the 1982 combines the usual charmes and fragrances with a firm structure and good substance.
There are many promises being made whilst smelling the wine and the mouthfeel confirms these. Dark and red berries, sandalwood, cedar, coffee, leather etc., long finish.
Providing solid storage, this wine should keep very well for another 10 years (2025?) with the silky tannins softening further.
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1/15/2016 - Moonie Likes this wine: 99 Points
In a word: perfection.
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1/14/2016 - Jeff Leve wrote: 97 Points
Flowers, spice, green pepper, cassis and fresh cherries kick off the perfume. The wine is ready to drink. And if you do pop a well stored example, be prepared for a silky, soft, polished, elegant and delicious wine with a sensuous, rich finish.
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1/3/2016 - tinybubbles Likes this wine: 94 Points
Well integrated spice and earth notes with white pepper, dusty soil, and a background hint of corriander. Not the most expressive bottle though. Required a full 1.5 hours to open up.
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12/24/2015 - GHPrager Likes this wine: 93 Points
Decanted 3 liter bottle cellared from release. Cork extraction whole and flawless. Classic P-L berry-floral nose, with earthiness that faded to a subtle undertone after minutes in the glass. On the palate, plenty of fruit, soft tannins, perfect balance of acidity and roundness. Slight bricking at the edges of the glass. Not as voluptuous as in the early years, but what it gained in complexity rewarded the patience. Drinks more like a Paulliac-St. Julien than a straight-up Paulliac now.
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12/22/2015 - Jeff Leve wrote: 98 Points
Pure silky pleasure that is made better with fruits displaying the texture of polished velvet, a complex nose and a dark chocolate, black cherry, plum finish that does not quit.
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12/19/2015 - bestdamncab Likes this wine: 93 Points
Opened a 750ml bottle for Kathy, Joe, Charles and Stephanie at Flemings, completed saturated cork opened in two pieces, nose of cigar box, bell pepper, black cherry, plum, and fig fruit, more of the same on the palate, richer tasting and slightly bigger tasting wine than the 1982 Chateau Haut Batailley, medium/big body, delicious, good but not great complexity, mouth filling rich fruit, long, long finish.
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12/19/2015 - Burgundy Al wrote:
Another Saturday at Chevalier...Mostly Blind (Chicago, IL): Tasted double blind alongside the 1995 vintage. Mature, ripe black fruit with enticing spice and cigarbox. Very good, very long. Best wine of the day.
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12/2/2015 - tinybubbles Likes this wine: 94 Points
From magnum. This bottle was somewhat shutdown. White pepper, red fruit, light clove. But none of the more exotic spice and black fruit that perhaps more evolved bottles (all 750s) have shown. Very good, but on this evening not spectacular. 94+?
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12/1/2015 - fcxj wrote: 90 Points
1982 blind tasting. Bit faded and most lightweight of the eight we tasted. Past prime?
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12/1/2015 - wcchang Likes this wine: 97 Points
Started drinking right after opened. Subtle nose with well-balanced all around nose. Wood, subtle dark fruits, morning forest and graphite. Silky smooth on the palate. Although this wine could be a few years past its peak, it's still at an extremely elite level that few can rival. Two hours in the bottle the wine opened up slightly more. Flavors of dark fruits opened up more. Medium finish with hints of licorice. And it doesn't get any better from there, goes slightly down after 4 hours in the bottle. So, I don't get it when someone decanted this wine for 3 or 6 hours. Don't do that.
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11/29/2015 - King Julien wrote: 95 Points
Decanted 6 hours.
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11/28/2015 - Dave Canada wrote: 92 Points
The Fourteenth Stonefields Dinner (Guelph, Ontario, Canada): The nose was dominated by pyrazene, black fruit, graphite and lead pencil.
On the palate there was similar dark fruit, pyrazene, lend pencil, graphite, earth and leather but there was also some brett and a touch of volatility that detracted from the bottles overall quality. It seemed as if its best days had been behind it...there was nothing wrong with it at all, but I got the sense that it would have been better 3-5 years earlier.
The finish was medium+.
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11/15/2015 - King Julien wrote: 94 Points
Decanted 2.5 hours, not much on the nose but a lengthy finish, took another hour for it to start opening up, then it was a shame since it was gone. Maybe a better score next time with a longer decant.
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11/9/2015 - Markus IWC wrote: 96 Points
Vertikal provning Pichon Lalande 12 årgångar 66-90. 1982: magiskt vin, tillsammans med 85 kvällens höjdpunkter. Kraftfulla mogna frukt aromer. Stort komplext vin, härligt fruktigt, körsbärslikör, klibbig, syrlig, fat, perfekt mognad, djup, längd, har allt, vansinnigt gott vin!!
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11/6/2015 - Bordeaux_Jon Likes this wine: 95 Points
The Super Platinum Tasting - Highest Rated 1982 - 1990 Left Bank Bordeaux (Platinum Tasting Group): Tasted single blind in a flight of 100 point Parker wines, all 1982-1990 Left Bank Bordeaux.
This wine remains a mystery to me. I've had it 5 times now and every time it shows very very differently. I could not pick it out in a blind tasting if my life depended on it. I've had bottles that were huge oak, earth, and brett bombs, and other bottles that were shy and austere.
This one was different than either. It was very fruit driven with a nose full of high toned strawberry and cherry fruit which really highlighted the Merlot in the blend. There was a good amount of complexity and the fruit was really front and centre. The palate was similarly fruit driven with cherry as well as herbal notes. Very very smooth on the palate and finish making it exceedingly easy to drink.
I guessed this was the 1990 Margaux based on the elegance and fruit driven nature of the wine. My friend picked it out blind based on a honey note on the nose, which seems to be a tell for Pichon Lalande, as we've seen it on a number of vintages now.
Although an excellent wine, for me it was not as complex, intense, or exciting as the other incredible wines in the flight and did not measure up. A previously explosively earthy, bretty, and oaky bottle of this wine was loved by all and topped a 1982 horizontal, but this bottle was nothing like that one.
My #8, the group's #7.
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11/6/2015 - Ericsson Likes this wine: 98 Points
Magnum exceptionnel, dans ma cave depuis 30 ans. Into neck. Bouchon très friable. Décanté 3 heures avant consommation. Couleur grenat violet, très dense. Arômes d'expresso, de roses fanées, de fruits rouges, de mine de crayon.
Bouche somptueuse, très puissante, jamais lourde, beaucoup de complexité, de structure et de très belle longueur.
Sur la base de ce magnum, facilement 10 ans devant lui.
Très impressionnant!
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11/4/2015 - giba ochman Likes this wine: 96 Points
Magnific Pichon, as always. Drink now
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10/17/2015 - liber Likes this wine: 97 Points
8th of 12, perfect cork and fill, decanted an hour, previous notes very fine plus or better - youthful, dark garnet, still dense on rim, even some purple; attractive, rich cassis, slightly baked, some tobacco and chocolate, classy; full bodied for claret, rich and silky fruit, very long and persistent, with a touch more acidity this would be nigh on perfect, even so I can see this developing more complexity over the next 10 years. Very fine plus (19/20).
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10/14/2015 - rossi.wine wrote: 97 Points
Very dark core still with some evolution around the rim. Very healthy and bright in colour. On the nose open and expressive, showing lots of depth and complexity. Tobacco, spice box, dark fruit, forest notes, smoke - very elegant and seductive. On the palate layered and perfectly balanced, great texture with good grip. Still lots of fruit. Everything is in the right place. The finish is in a different league compared to all other wines tasted this evening. Superb and complete with a good future. Drink or keep. 96-98
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10/14/2015 - Papies wrote: 96 Points
1982, 1985 & 1989 Bordeaux Super Seconds, with Richard Brazier (Handford Wines, London): Our first encounter with this beautiful wine.
HAs a bit of evolution on the colour, but not much. Quite evolved and classic on the nose, still a good healthy dose of fruit though. Secondary on the finish. Alive and complex, joyful, well balanced and pure. An excellent wine. 96
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9/29/2015 - The Vines That Bind Likes this wine: 94 Points
Still deep garnet in the glass. Gorgeous bouquet of damp soil, coffee grounds, tea leaf, leather, and red cedar. An excellent medley of the aforementioned notes on the palate culminating in a soft and silky mouthfeel. Faint tannin and oak hang around. More fruit power than expected for the age. Although a great bottle and a real pleasure to drink, the 'mystique' of '82 Left-Bank leaves something to be desired here... The closer of a Lalande vertical spanning 2000 to 1982.
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9/25/2015 - canan wrote: 98 Points
BYO European Wine (Restaurant Kul): Still intense and fresh with plenty of fruit left. This bottle was really good and perhaps the best tasted yet.
The wine is all about the impressive balance where everything just fits together nicely while still having its own personality.
A huge wine. Will probably not improve from this point on but still able to keep for a very long time.
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9/25/2015 - paulst Likes this wine: 97 Points
Concentrated with rich blackberry; loaded; balanced; supple and elegant with a long finish.
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8/28/2015 - d'Artagnan wrote: 98 Points
Souper de 50 ans à la maison: Un nez très jeune, expressif comme un coup de poing! Des nuances de cassis, de mine de crayon, avec un coté fumé. La bouche est encore très jeune et montre encore un fruit frais renversant. La texture est crémeuse et le tout se termine avec une finale époustouflante de finesse. Incroyable comment le fruit est encore jeune! L'équilibre du vin est incroyable, avec une puissance aromatique et une longueur exceptionnelles. Un très grand vin qui se montre à la hauteur de sa réputation. 98+ pts
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8/14/2015 - hkbob Likes this wine: 98 Points
Clear terracotta brick color. Simply sublime nose right out of the gate with autumnal and animal hints over sweet decaying fruit. Gorgeous silky smooth and long palate. A wonderful vinous experience!
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8/1/2015 - BradE wrote:
I sometimes forget how good this wine can be. Seriously good bottle.
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7/4/2015 - paulst Likes this wine: 98 Points
Dense and plummey with length.
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6/13/2015 - dream Likes this wine: 96 Points
Stunning nose of roasted nuts, ripe black currants and opulent black minerals. A perfect bottle that shows a beautiful silky texture along with surprisingly full flavors of mature Pauillac including warm cassis, smooth black fruits, a touch of green olive and graphite minerals. The finish just oozes through with these delicious flavors along with softened tannins and complex notes of leathers, minerals and old wood. As impossible as this is to stop drinking, I think '82 PL peaked about 3-5 years ago atleast in a 750 bottle and should be drunk now to still experience the incredible fruit and flavors this amazing wine still puts forth. 96-
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6/8/2015 - Amerique wrote: 96 Points
Beautiful florid nose and body of plum/black cherry fruit with multilayered flavors leather, spice, and vanilla oak, excellent structure and balance, long finish, this gorgeous wine is at is best but may fade in next 5-10 years, a truly spectacular wine
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6/5/2015 - tinybubbles Likes this wine: 97 Points
Boysenberry, marionberry, cardamom, clove, speck, bell pepper, black truffle mix is intoxicating. On the palate the fruit turns somewhat redder with earthy notes thrown in. Vibrant throughout the palate with a strong finish.
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5/31/2015 - george61 Likes this wine: 98 Points
Bottle ex-chateau, perfect condition. Living proof that there are no great wines, just great bottles. I be had this wine several times in the last twenty years and always regarded it as one of the top 3 1982s. Recent bottles showed that the wine is fading. Not this one! Tasted like a 15 year wine. Deep colour, stunning nose of tobacco and a finish that went on forever. If you find any bottles directly from the chateau buy them!
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5/5/2015 - robertgf wrote: 96 Points
Big Bordeaux IX (Kevin's house 4/18/15). Why am I cursed with a palate that loves expensive wine?
Wonderful. So this is what all the fuss is about with Boerdeaux.
Some pleasant funk on nose along with an earthy/woodsie quality. A wine to just hold and smell without drinkingg; but who can hold back. Such a rich, full mouth feel.Some vegal hints. A wow wine, and my second favorite.
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4/19/2015 - galewskj wrote: 96 Points
Big Bordeaux IX (Kevin's house): Slow-O for about 4 hours, decanted for 1 hour; drank 1+ glass over 3 hours. This was freeking amazing. A beautiful nose and a very impressive palate. This has every Bordeaux descriptor in it except barnyard.
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4/18/2015 - ageverett Likes this wine: 99 Points
A real treat. Was popped and poured in the cellar of our gracious (and benevolent) host. Nose of absolute gun powder. Taste and finish just makes you close your eyes and try to describe what the hell is going on in your mouth. An unforgettable experience.
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4/18/2015 - RockinCabs wrote: 99 Points
Nose: kaleidoscopic, red fruit, black fruit, blackberries, toffee, spices, gunpowder, strawberry bubble gum (!), sweet flowers, and tobacco. Every nuance just danced through the nose. Ever evolving through the 5 hours we sat with this. Palate: Patience was required to watch this evolve but paid off in spades. Full, rich, nuanced and every element sang high notes. So elegant and seamless. A melange of berries, spices, earth, chocolate. Though provoking and a joy to drink. Finish: long but not cloying. Deft balance & silky feel with detailed spices, oak, berries, fine cigar, coffee and earth.
Bordeaux does not get better than this. Perfect bottle living up to expectations. One of the greats...
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4/18/2015 - rocknroller wrote: 97 Points
Big Bordeaux IX featuring '82 Pichon LaLande and Leoville Las Cases and More (Rocknroller's (Kevin & Vicki's Place)): Very dark red plus color with a 1cm transitional margin. Slow-O for about 4 hours, decanted for 1 hour; drank 1+ glass over 3 hours. One whiff and you knew this was exquisite, one taste and you were elevated to another place. Ethereal, evocative, insert your adjective here. An impressive nose with ground tobacco, deep wet earth, a touch of funk, a seductive perfume of potpourri, red raspberry, cassis, black cherry. The palate is just wow, wow, wow, lifted, incredibly earthy, damp, vibrant, gorgeous velvety red and blue and black fruits, sleek ultra fine grained tannins and a very, very long finish. It's hard to even put in words, it simply makes me giddy. My and group WOTN, hands down. 97+ to 98pts.
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4/18/2015 - nortonnose wrote: 98 Points
An incredibly generous treat, and one that exceeded everyone's highest expectations! Decanted and enjoyed over many hours. Much of that was fighting over who's turn it was to plant one's nose in the decanter! Just a beguiling, constantly changing sequence of aromas over those hours: currant, cedar, white flowers, lavender, strawberry bubble gum (!), baking spice, all the way back to tobacco. A couple hours in, I was nervous that it might be drying a touch on the palate, but it magically took that very deep breath in and expanded even more in the ensuing hour-plus. Beyond elegant - almost the polar opposite of "power" - on the palate, just the thinnest layer of silk, spinning over a minute-plus finish. Ethereal. Just an extraordinary experience, and the start of a wonderful new pursuit: "make the Palmer show second best!" Thank you very much, PB!
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4/18/2015 - englishman's claret wrote: 98 Points
Hello again old friend. Unlike the 90 Palmer, this was a little more fickle. But when it was on, it was really on. About 3 hours into the decant, a seamlessly integrated nose of currant, violets, lavendar, cedar, cinnamon, and Indian spices. Wonderful.
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4/17/2015 - 3daywinereview.com wrote: 95 Points
Big Bordeaux 9: The hype didn't live up to the expectation. It is hard to believe my friend paid what he did for this wine as the 04 I am drinking now is not that much worse for the ware. Medium purple. Coffee, spice, blue fruits, and earth. Balance and elegant. Medium to long finish. Drink now to 2020.
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4/11/2015 - rsbeck wrote: 98 Points
Popped, breathed in bottle two hours, consumed over next two. Needed about 15 minutes in the glass to come together and then it plateaued all night. The tapestry of flavors is so finely knit that other than the subtle core of fruit, lead, and cigar box, it's impossible to identify all of the various secondary and tertiary notes that multiply on the palate and continue into the lengthy, memorable finish. What a gracious, elegant, beautiful wine. 98+
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4/5/2015 - Vinnut Likes this wine: 97 Points
Deep, dark garnet with some minor clearing at the edges. Full, forward, fragrant & attractive nose of complex, developed & mature ripe fruit aromas of dark cherries, cassis, blackberries & plums with classic cigar box overtones of cedar wood & tobacco, pencil/graphite, leather, floral notes of violets, herbal notes of juniper & sage, some underbrush & green bell pepper notes with secondary notes of earthy, truffles, dark cocoa, roasted coffee, olives, dusty, spice notes of cardamom & peppercorns & minerals. Medium-full bodied with a very good concentration of silky smooth & polished textured, well balanced, well integrated, developed & mature, plush, ripe fruit flavors of dark cherries, black currants, blackberries & plums with spices, earthy, herbs, some cocoa, coffee & minerals. Long lingering smooth finish. Drinks quite well at present and appears to have the structure & fruit to hold onto its current plateau of development for a few more additional years although any further development is doubtful.
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3/27/2015 - bestdamncab Likes this wine: 93 Points
Wine group dinner for Aniko at Yans China Bistro with Alex Yan doing the cooking. My #3 and Group #3. Lovely rich chocolate, dark fruit, and lead pencil, more of the same on the palate, touch soft, flat, and flabby, worst bottle ever tasted, medium body, long, long finish.
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3/24/2015 - sdr Likes this wine: 96 Points
Recorked 1994 (hidden on cork, no label). Fabulous showing. Deep color. Interesting aromas of black olive tapenade, cassis, blackberry and cedar. Medium to full bodied, rich and stylish. Tannins are evident but they are ripe and provide welcome structure. A great wine that lives up to its reputation.
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3/12/2015 - vanpe003 wrote: 92 Points
Shared by a friend. Liked this, a lot. A btl with good provenance. Progressing well, but this bottle doesn't show the complexity or allure of the best from this vintage. A treat for me given it's age and balance. But....treat, not life changing.
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3/7/2015 - etyc Likes this wine:
1st Vivino Int'l chapter in Singapore (Sat. afternoon), Part-1 (Bok's place): After the last HB which some guessed was Cheval and proven wrong, many thought this was it. So so beautiful and amazing on the nose - cassis, graphite, cigar-box, some tobacco and berries. Wow, the amazement followed onto the palate - pure, silky texture, with layers and layers of red-dark fruits coupled with more notes of earth, cigar-box, truffles. Finished long, fresh, vibrant but elegant. A FG-beater in most cases. Would've been my wine of the afternoon if not for the Chave! Great!
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3/7/2015 - sdr Likes this wine: 96 Points
Fabulous example. Seems very youthful (and mid neck level) - but although not noted on the exterior of the bottle the cork is branded rebouchée au chateau 1993. Very puzzling. But the wine is bursting with fruit, blackberry, blueberry, maybe raspberry, hint of rose petal. Gorgeous bouquet. On the palate, intensely fruity, modest oak, integrated tannins, some secondary notes (dried herbs). Excellent structure, good acids and minerals.
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1/19/2015 - conspicuousconsumptions Likes this wine: 100 Points
Opened at 7AM and double decanted - recorked
Probably the only 100 point wine we have ever tasted (with possible exception of 1982 DuCru)
Enjoyed so much forgot to write down notes...
Very consistent, velvety and smooth start to finish (long finish)...just beautiful with leg of lamb
Enjoyed over 5 hours
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1/19/2015 - Eric wrote: 100 Points
Pre Davos Wine Forum tasting (Zumikon, Switzerland): Ahhh. This is electric with a stalky, spicy, wonderfully green tobacco Pauillac nose. Mmm, the utterly seamless palate features cherry dancing together with ripe notes of soy and tobacco. This wine is deity-sent, just perfect. My desert island wine and a treat that nearly always bowls me over. This bottle was no exception. My WOTN.
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12/28/2014 - mariow wrote: 87 Points
unpleasant nose right after opening, ok on the palate, but none of the rich flavors this wine is known for; decanted, after 2+ hours neutral nose, rather green on the palate; drinkable but a huge disappointment
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12/25/2014 - Ibetian wrote: 96 Points
Opened and slow oxed about 4 hours before dinner. Bought from a retailer in the past year. Mid shoulder fill, cork saturated and pushed out slightly. First of 3 bottles of this purchase.
Not decanted, but poured into glasses a bit early. As is often the case with older wines, the nose changed quite a bit over time. A little musty at first, but that blew off. Classic nose of cedar, cassis, old leather, mushrooms and damp earth. Smoothe, with a wonderful, lingering finish.
We have been fortunate to enjoy this wine several times. The best bottle was the only wine I have rated 100 in CT. This was not quite up to that bottle, but still a wonderful treat on Christmas Day. God bless us every one!
Update: had a half glass left at the end of the evening, put in a screw top half bottle, kept in fridge overnight and finished the next day. Still going strong, no noticeable drop off. Suggests that this might have at least a few good years left before it starts a slow decline.
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12/18/2014 - ATBridge wrote:
What an amazing bottle of Bordeaux. From the minute the cork is pulled, a staggering perfume of cassis, graphite, earth/tobacco, and more cassis hit the nose. The depth of the nose is equalled in the mouth where every tastebud is rocked with textbook Pauillac flavors. The finish seemingly never ends. This wine will last for ever, but is incredibly approachable now.
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12/13/2014 - PStella Likes this wine: 92 Points
I suspect this was not the best showing this wine is capable of. Solid, enjoyable, and easy to drink. But it lacked a 'wow factor' I would expect from a wine of this caliber. Chalk it up to the bottle. It's been a while since I've had this wine but my memories of it from the past are much more positive. This wine was a little softer than I'd have expected.
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12/8/2014 - Old Vino Likes this wine: 96 Points
A nose of blackberry and graphite. Palate is covered with light-citrus sour cherries. Wild berries, cedar, beef blood, forrest soil and a tiny tertiary green note. Acidity and fine grainy tannins - this has not hit its peak at an age of 32. A Pauillac juice that is at the same level of many first growth Bordeaux wines.
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11/22/2014 - jfpwine Likes this wine: 96 Points
Beautiful ruby-garnet color. Lots of tertiary notes on the nose, with earth and mushroom. Red fruit is still shining through. Perfectly balanced on the palate. Long finish. Fantastic. Did not decant.
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11/8/2014 - hkbob Likes this wine: 99 Points
Qualitatively as good as the 1990 Chateau Margaux I had recently although more masculine in its aromatics. Brick red color. Earth, smoked meats, tobacco and saddle leather all in abundance on the nose. Could inhale this all night. The palate gave me goose bumps - fleshy and endless flavors of dried fruits, bacon and autumn leaves. Just a glorious bottle!
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10/24/2014 - georgeohr wrote: flawed
Corked.
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10/20/2014 - Jeff Leve wrote: 98 Points
A riveting example of Pauillac at its best. Picture silky, decadent textures, pure, ripe, sultry, polished, silky berries, complex aromas of fruit, truffles, Cuban Cigars and earth and you get the idea. The long, sensuous finish is the best of the experience.
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10/18/2014 - salil wrote: 98 Points
Another wow experience with this wine, which remains a benchmark Bordeaux for me. It's an incredible combination of power and elegance. There's great complexity here with layers of sweet red and dark fruited flavours, cedar, tobacco, graphite, earth, and more flamboyant herbal, spicy and truffled notes all coming together very seamlessly with both great intensity and finesse on the palate. The tannin feels very silky beneath the rich fruit that still is quite sappy and fresh, and the finish is remarkably long.
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10/17/2014 - paulst Likes this wine: 97 Points
Leather, cedar and tar nose; cherry; smooth and integrated; near perfect balance; long sweet cherry blackberry on the palate; long elegant finish.
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10/15/2014 - fcxj wrote: 96 Points
HDH dinner
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10/12/2014 - BradE wrote:
Four great 82 BDX tonight, flighted together. Haut Brion was WOTN for me. Simply incredible, as always, and ridiculously enjoyable. A tie for #2: Margaux and Pichon Lalande. The Margaux was the most primary, and seems to have literally 25 years of life ahead of it. Relaxed a bit in the glass over an hour or so. The Pichon Lalande was in some respects the classiest of the group, and was terrific, but lost a little in the sexiness rating. The 82 Leoville Poyferre was terrific, and in most dinners might contend for WOTN, but tonight was a very high class last place. 82's of perfect provenance are such a pleasure.
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9/7/2014 - McKraftyWino Likes this wine: 95 Points
superb.
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8/2/2014 - aquacongas Likes this wine: 98 Points
great riped Bx, still young, but I think now it is beginning to be at the top, dark fruits, elegant, concentration, pencil, cedar, mint and eucalyptus a little bit like heitz marthas vineyard, long aftertaste, nearly perfect 50+5+14+19+10
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7/27/2014 - johnh1001 wrote: 98 Points
BYO Dinner at Home: Another wonderful example of this wine. Somehow, this seemed even more youthful than my last bottle.
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7/11/2014 - PDavisMarble wrote: 95 Points
Part of mini- vertical with the '86 & '90. Pretty ruby red. Decanted for 6 hours. Nose blossomed form red fruits to graphite, flint, grilled meats and an undertone of plum. Top notes echoed the nose while the finish had a silky chocolatey feel with more lead and sweet raspberries. Thank you Rob!
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6/21/2014 - dream Likes this wine: 95 Points
Dark ruby color with a slight browning. Gorgeous nose of roasted nuts, black fruits, sweet tobacco and dark red spices. This bottle is quite firm on the palate and needed a good 2-hr. decant to show itself. Then rich smoky black fruits combine with deep flavors of tobacco, sweet but scorched earth, asparagus and sour cherries. A rather thick and voluminous wine with a silky, aged texture. The finish is quite complex with wonderful spice and earth notes, bitter chocolate and still some sour tannins. An extraordinary wine although the slight bitterness on the finish keeps this particular bottle from scoring higher.
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5/15/2014 - johnh1001 wrote: 98 Points
Les Nomades BYO Dinner (Les Nomades Chicago): I have had some slight bottle variation with this wine, but this was one of the better bottles. Consistent with prior experience. Wonderful gloss texture and beautiful silky mouthfeel. Long finish. Superb.
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4/13/2014 - MDO1982 Likes this wine: 97 Points
decanted hour before consumed, was more youthful than expected but certainly time to drink it if in your cellar. simply delicious wine, had with shortribs and polenta--glad I have more!
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4/2/2014 - Burgundy Al wrote: 95 Points
Wine with the NEXT Chicago Steak Dinner (NEXT Restaurant - Chicago IL): Open an hour+ before serving. One of the best showings i can recall for this wine. Lots of dense blackberry and currant with hints of cigarbox and dark roast coffee. Very balanced on palate with an overall fresh, vibrant mouth feel.
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3/2/2014 - spendergast Likes this wine: 99 Points
Paired with osso bucco. A beautiful wine, just as delicious as the last bottle I drank about a year ago.
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2/22/2014 - uberoh wrote: 95 Points
Great balance and complexity - still an amazing wine but a little less than it was even a couple of years ago.
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1/11/2014 - misterstarre Likes this wine: 98 Points
Decanted about a half an hour. Te wine looks young. It has a dark red/purple core and faint rust at the edge. The nose is remarkable -- lots of wet bark, forest floor and damp earth. Soil and mushrooms waft out of the glass. The taste is focused. Fresh acidity. The mid-palate is an amalgam of the above-described earthy notes, cassis, fig, grilled bread, and tobacco. The flavor profile is focused and precise. It was elegant and balanced. The tannins are soft - almost fully resolved, but enough to leave a dry finish. Medium plus body. The wine has layers of complexity, but there are no distractions and competing notes. Each flavor component of the '82 Lalande compliments the other. This wine is in harmony. And oh, the finish! 45 seconds of lingering sous bois and pencil lead. Marvellous. My wife's review: "105 points. How can wine taste any better?"
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12/31/2013 - RayOB Likes this wine: 94 Points
Drank in Bordeaux
Thanks to Tom for supplying this wine. Quiet mature nose with forest floor, red fruits and cedar. Great complexity on the palate with a medium length. Lovely stuff.
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12/31/2013 - sandda Likes this wine: 99 Points
stunning, virtually perfect
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12/19/2013 - Flavito wrote: 98 Points
Virtually perfect!
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12/8/2013 - Old Vino Likes this wine: 96 Points
Red currant, forest floor, and Clove. On palate with sour cherry, blackberry, and light toast. Full body. Silky texture. Long finish. This still has some integrated subtle grainy tannins but would go for years and years in cellar. 96+
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12/2/2013 - nskelsey wrote: 95 Points
Robert Parker has always given this wine sensational marks (98-100) and I can see why. Decanted and poured straight away it is much lighter in colour than the Cos d"Estournel 1982 that accompanied it and is stylistically at the opposite end of the spectrum. The nose is simply out of this world; gloriously ethereal and I don't recall ever having a claret with a bouquet its equal. This promised so much, but sadly on the palate it couldn't live up to the promise. Pichon Lalande is always a rather 'delicate' wine, stylish and fine-boned (like a porcelain tea cup) and this example is no exception, but there is now no hint of tannin and the fruit is a little dull albeit retaining wonderful balance and purity. I suspect this bottle is four or five years past its peak. It slips down remarkably smoothly, but has lost its magic. That's not to say you can't still appreciate the brilliance of this wine, but on this showing it's no longer at its peak. Estimated maturity: If I had any more of this, which I don't, I would be drinking it up over the next couple of years. Nothing is to be gained by keeping it.
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11/26/2013 - UPL Likes this wine: 100 Points
more than 100 Points!!---a bottle can not get better...
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10/20/2013 - dcwino wrote: 99 Points
1982 Bordeaux dinner (The Grill Room at Capella Hotel Georgetown): Explosive nose of cassis, dark fruits, cedar, a hint of lead pencil, lavander and mushroom. Great example of the vintage and the chateau, intense ripe dark fruit and noticeable green note are nicely integrated to make the wine hedonistic yet fresh. This bottle showed the similar concentration and development as the 82 HB. Medium concentration, intense dark fruit, silky and nicely integrated tannins. This is perhaps the best and freshest example that I had. Jim mentioned the short finish and IMO, the perfect balance and airy palate may give that impression. Intense yet precise. This is a kind of wine that I would be happy to drink a whole bottle.
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10/5/2013 - johnh1001 wrote: 97 Points
Tried a bottle from a different case than the prior two. After two hours this blossomed into a sweeter, fuller, rounder wine. I'm splitting hairs at this point!
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9/23/2013 - johnh1001 wrote: 95 Points
Very similar to the last bottle, which I think was from the same case. Stunning purity and glossy texture. Perfect balance, but was subdued compared to the flavors of prior bottles. Still, I love this wine.
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8/22/2013 - Ibetian Likes this wine: 98 Points
Slight bricking at the rim. Wonderfully complex nose now dominated by secondary characteristics: cedar, leather, mushrooms and earth. Yet there is also some black cherry and other dark fruit. Smooooth. Palate has more fruit than the nose would suggest.
Great wine, maybe a step ahead of the bottle of this we had last year and a step behind the incredible 100 point experience with this wine 2 years ago. We are so lucky to be able to enjoy this wine.
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8/4/2013 - fclarity wrote: 96 Points
From a bottle purchased on release, this bottle had a bottom neck fill. The wine had a deep red/purple center with a reddish orange rim. While this coloration might indicate it was fully mature, this is the same way the wine looked 10 - 15 years ago.
The first whiff of the nose immediately registered as a "Wow!" Great from the start, this wine only got better given a couple of hours of air. While the complexity defied description to some degree, I would note mocha, black cherry, soil, and led pencil. At the end, the nose started to add some zingy raspberry.
I have run into some bottle variation with this wine. However, it is almost always good. It just depends how good.
In the mouth, this bottle was extremely ripe and round. The balance was spectacular. On one hand it was fruity and on the other it is quite dry and serious. You think it is super ripe but this feature is balanced by attractive rounded tannins and acids that are buried in fruit.
Again, it is easy to suspect this wine is fully mature because it is so refined and drinkable. However, my opinion is that this wine will remain great for decades. A special wine, a special bottle.
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8/1/2013 - Wine Expresso wrote: 89 Points
Bottle from different source than last year's. That was marvelous.
Lighten ruby color, savory, salty, crushed fruits nose straight from the bottle without decanting, freshness and powerful first mouth-fill.
Rest for 3hours in the bottle, still ripen fruits, cedar nose, melted tannins but faded faster than my previous sample (95pts). Structure and complexity were average, so as the finish.
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7/25/2013 - DoubleMagnum Likes this wine: 95 Points
1980's Bordeaux Dinner (Arlington Club, NY): Almost no rim. Bloody meat, iodine, medicinal, gamey and carnal on the nose. Once again, more carnal than a sin on the savory palate. Tannins are almost unnoticeable. Texture is silky smooth. Finish is long, very long. Great effort.
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7/18/2013 - coyler Likes this wine:
Visual: Very dark maroon color, almost blackish.
Nose: Tobacco leaves, dark fruits, cinnamon.
Palate: Power, dark fruits, cigar box and cardamon with a pleasant touch of peppercorns.
This was tasted alongside a '71 Rinaldi Barolo and a 1983 Mouton. This bottle was all about power and and strength. It was extremely masculine, but very well made. This could last another 30 years, easily, without starting to decline. A great wine! A
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6/12/2013 - dkentaustin Likes this wine: 97 Points
Pichon de Lalande has NEVER disappointed. The amber color and the mature fruit has always made this wine amazing. Light saddle leather with subtle red fruit makes this THE go to Wine if you have the opportunity All Experts say it is time to drink. I believe This PichonLaLande is at a peak that will last another 7-10 yrs. Amazing. No need to over analyzes a Classic dkl
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5/18/2013 - sdr Likes this wine: 93 Points
It's impossible not to like this wine. Very pretty bright red color. This one was purchased on original release and had a low neck level. The aroma is quite floral, especially from my sample glass left out for several hours. Beautiful texture, medium weight, clean finish; the definition of "round" as applied to wine. It seems to have plenty of life for the foreseeable future.
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5/12/2013 - Tad GW Likes this wine: 100 Points
Incredible. Even better than the bottle I had last year which I scored 98. I cannot imagine a wine better than this. There are lots of fine, soft tannins that promise this wine will last for decades to come. Wow!
50+5+15+20+10=100
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5/11/2013 - UPL Likes this wine: 100 Points
i see the light...
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4/23/2013 - Petrusrs wrote: flawed
Nomads with Matthew
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4/23/2013 - Petrusrs wrote: flawed
Nomads with Mathew
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4/21/2013 - dream Likes this wine: 96 Points
Excellent blackish color. Perfect nose of roasted nuts, black fruits and earth with Pauillac minerals. Surprisingly, this well-stored bottle didn't really begin to sing until it was in the decanter for 3+ hours! Rich and intense at first with great earth and black rasberry flavors with a dry tannic grip on the finish. Then after 3 hours, the wine began to achieve a silky purity as if it calmed down and entered a zen-like meditative state. Then the complexity on the finish showed up with incredible flavors of black licorice, spicebox and sweet earth. A great wine that obviously needs air to strut its stuff.
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4/20/2013 - Tenuta Stefan Likes this wine: 100 Points
Magnum
Perfect bottle.
Very young colour for its age.
Magnificent nose!! Perfection! This wine has everything you want from an aged Bordeaux! Leather, coffee, herbs, cigarrbox, meat, pencil - graphite and dark fruit from cassis and blackberry.
Perfection on the palate! Totally balanced and seamless :-)
Still lots of fruit. Young and virile with lots of energy!
Marvelous length! +90 sec!
A beauty like Jayne Mansfield in 1958 :-)
My dear friend said "This is one of the best wines I've ever tried ... probably the best one!" And my friend have tried many, many, many of the Big Guns!
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4/13/2013 - dbg wrote:
Just found my notes from last spring's tasting. Purchased in 2012 from HDH, top shoulder fill, soft cork but no overt signs of leakage. Slow-oxed for 3 hours. Bright red core, moderate bricking at rim. Flowers, leather, earth, cherry and cassis make for a very complex fragrant nose. Medium body, silky smooth palate feel, complex flavors follow the nose, each one fading into and out of prominence and trading back and forth with each taste. Beautiful balance, tannins fully resolved, so round and complete, does a slow lingering fade on the back palate and finish. Should continue to drink well for years. A fantastic wine, extraordinary!
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3/13/2013 - Jeff Leve wrote: 96 Points
Showing a color with more bricking than it should, the aromatics offered intense scents of cedar wood, cassis, forest floor, tobacco and leafs. Silky, plush and polished, there are no hard edges to this sensuous expression of Pauillac. However, the wine was slightly more advanced than other bottles tasted recently.
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3/11/2013 - Old Vino wrote:
Cork was not in best shape. Suspect wine was not properly stored over the years. This bottle not as enjoyable as a previous one we had few months ago.
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3/9/2013 - pacificoast wrote: 97 Points
Tasted at a horizontal of 1982 Bordeaux first and second growths, this wine held its own as one of the top wines of the event. Only a Latour and a Cheval Blanc outdid this classic, which remains one of the very best wines of this remarkable vintage. Lush, ripe, opulent fruit contrasted with the more austere, if more refined and precise, few top first growths that ever so slightly nudged it aside. Perhaps the freshness can be attributed to the predominance of Merlot, giving a roundness, opulence and soft tannins compared with the others, with a higher percentage of Cabernet in the blend. One of Robert Parker's great talents is to at times succinctly and eloquently hit the nail on the head in describing a wine. I feel he did so beautifully in one of his more recent revisitations of this wine and reaffirmation of his 100-point rating: "One of the monumental wines of the last century is the 1982 Pichon Lalande. Since bottling, it has flirted with perfection...." I could not put it any better. If only Pichon Lalande had kept up this incredible level of winemaking. A truly superb and fascinating wine.
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3/7/2013 - Seth Rosenberg wrote: 91 Points
Farewell to Josh - the burbs have him now. (L'Artusi Restaurant, West Village, Manhattan): Mark P's bottle. Peppery (green) and herbal. Some sweet fruit. Sweet and deep. delicious but not 'wow'. Nose - 4.5/6, Palate - 5/6, Finish - 5/6, Je Ne Sais Quoi - 1/6 = 15.5/20.
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3/7/2013 - Matt Neel Likes this wine:
Sending Josh off to the 'burbs (l'Artusi, NYC): Very deep blood, bricking. Very, VERY Pichon Lalande nose: bell pepper, cedar cigar box, iron filings, burning fireplace embers; a lot of chalk, perhaps a bit too chalky for my taste. The palate is big and dense, very rich; insanely cashmere smooth and velvety. Tannic yet, with precise acidity. Flavors of plum, deep black cherry, fig, cedar. This is still too young for me. Excellent length with medium to full body. Hold. 10-20 years from ready. Fantastic, but young.
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2/26/2013 - Charlie Carnes wrote:
Darn. This is the first disappointing bottle of this for me. It really wasn't bad just not super. The fruit was red but it was dried out and the wine was more cedar-like than anything else. After a little oxygen for about a day, it became drinkable, but it was never a standout. I was not compelled to finish the bottle. I have no clue as to this bottle's provenance.
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2/22/2013 - 83AJ Likes this wine: 89 Points
Too much cedar for my taste. Not sure what all the fuss is about. Perhaps more time, maybe not enough time in the decanter. No doubt good wine, but now worth the parker pumped up price
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12/29/2012 - bestdamncab Likes this wine: 98 Points
Wine Group Bordeaux Tasting, first place. Almost perfect this evening, bright raspberry character on the nose and palate, hints of cedar and red cherry fuit and a touch of herbs on the palate, lovely and delicious to taste, medium/long finish, my favorite this night by far, at its peak, enjoy the next eight years.
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12/19/2012 - johnh1001 wrote: 95 Points
Drank over 5 hours. Did not decant. Another great bottle from a different case. This one was not as full in the mouth or as silky as those in my other notes. Nose took a while to get going, flavor profile was consistent with past bottles, but the texture and fullness weren't as wonderful. Still a phenomenal bottle with a long long finish.
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12/14/2012 - Zweder wrote: 95 Points
Battle between Pichon Baron, Pichon Comtesse and Lynch Bages. 11 TOP Vintages from 1982 - 2009 (@ Bottles; Sas van Gent, Netherlands): Complex bouquet with luxurious impression like cedar and fresh red and black berry fruits. On the palate mainly red fruits, rose hips and fresh acidity. Very elegant and complex wine. I don’t think we had a perfect bottle, but I nevertheless scored it 95.
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12/4/2012 - johnh1001 wrote: flawed
Unfortunately this bottle was slightly corked. However the texture, mouthfeel and midpalate were so good we drank it anyway.
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11/25/2012 - Old Vino wrote: 96 Points
Fabulous in all aspects. Half-hour decanting and the wine blossomed. At the current price, we are not likely to buy more. Holding on the other 2 bottles for now.
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11/23/2012 - Edclr wrote: 98 Points
Another beautiful bottle. Thanksgiving night, done with turkey, time for steak and lamb chops. Had 82, 83 and 86 Pich's side by each. All very different but could identify all as Pichon Lalande. Not much of even a hint of brown on any of the 3. All perfectly stored, decanted and served. Fruit still bright in 82 and 83, 86 still a bit on the tight side. Great examples of Bordeaux. None of the 3 showing signs of down sliding. But 82 and 83 are probably at peak, 86 still some time left to hit it's peak.
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11/22/2012 - rocketview wrote: 99 Points
Robust for it's age, yet maintained the classic silkiness and sweetness of plum jam and sweet black fruits. Perfect balance long finish. A wine at it's prime, but will last a decade or more.
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11/19/2012 - Margauxguy wrote: 98 Points
Absolutely fabulous! Soft gorgeous, lush, but not fading. Just an elegant, beautiful, superb wine
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10/29/2012 - Jeff Leve wrote: 98 Points
1982 Pichon Lalande remains the most consistent and stunning representative of the vintage. If you’re seeking opulent, sexy, lush, silky textures, complex aromas with truffles, forest floor, cassis, blackberry, olives and cigar box with a finish that lasts close to a minute, this is the wine to buy. From the day this majestic elixir was bottled, some tasters claimed it would not last. Not only has it lasted, it continues to improve.
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10/26/2012 - kr522 wrote: 99 Points
This wine has joie de vivre.
I haven't had this wine in years and I'm happy to see it hasn't long a step. It was the last bottle in my cellar, with a VTS fill level and the cork was mostly saturated...it poured with a deep ruby color.
It took some time for the aromas to emerge and they weren't overwhelming but there was plum, cedar and maybe a whiff of coffee. But when you sip this it comes alive...it's a party in your mouth! A sweet entry that quickly coats your tongue with no hard edges, it's lush with beautiful precision and enough acid and complexity that it sparkles. THIS is what wine is supposed to taste like...a little dark fruit mixed in with a curranty/raspberry tinge, some jamminess and maybe some lychee for lift.
Can't say enough good things about this, it's probably my favorite 82. For my taste I'd rate it a notch above Mouton & Gruaud Larose, and two above Latour, La Mission, L'Evangile and La Tour Haut Brion
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10/13/2012 - Eric Likes this wine: 100 Points
Canlis celebration to welcome Dan Polivy (Seattle, WA): There is 1982 Pichon and there is 1982 Pichon. This was a seriously great example. An utterly compelling nose with all of that stalky tobacco intermixed with gloriously ripe and roasted plums. The palate is pure silk and everything I want from great Bordeaux. This wine has lost a little weight over the past decade, but it makes up for it with glorious complexity.
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10/2/2012 - salil wrote: 98 Points
1982 Bordeaux at Crabtree Kittle House (Chappaqua, NY): Wow! This certainly lives up to the hype. It's incredibly fragrant, flamboyant and amazingly complex with layers of rich fruit, developed earthy, tobacco and earthy elements, and more exotic spicy, lavender and green herbal notes coming together seamlessly in a powerful yet very finessed whole. The balance is flawless; the scent's hard to move away from and the flavours resonate long after each sip. Utterly stunning wine.
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10/2/2012 - Tad GW wrote: 98 Points
This was a fantastic wine. Balanced, harmonious, luscious and rich. It still has lots of fine tannins that promise many more years of life and probably some improvement in the future from what is already pretty perfect. Smoke and tobacco mix with ripe fruit scents from blue and black berries. Sensuous and hedonistic (I seldom use that word) in the mouth. It lingers in the mouth for a long, long time.
50+5+14+19+10=98
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10/2/2012 - coremill wrote: 96 Points
1982 Bordeaux (Crabtree Kittle House): Oh wow. Knockout nose, with black fruit, curry spice, cigar, smoked earth. Richer than the Lynch with complex cassis, chocolate, that exotic spice flavor, and amazing length. The second time I've had this wine in two weeks (it's a tough life, I know), and this showed differently, more evolved, less primary, not as plush or rich, without the same viscosity and power but with more acid, more savory, more complex, more elegant, better length, equally fantastic. I think the other bottle still had a ways to go while this one is fully at peak. Easy choice as WOTN for everyone. Spectacular.
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9/29/2012 - InflationHedge wrote: 88 Points
I had great expectations for this bottle, but was disappointed. While it did get a little life after an hour or in decanter and showed nice faded fruit and tobacco, this bottle was clearly past it's prime.
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9/27/2012 - cooberp wrote: 94 Points
This was the piece de resistance of my 30th birthday, and unfortunately by the time we got to it I was too drunk to fully appreciate it. I remember impressively pure, rich blackcurrant fruit complemented by cocoa and herbs, and a soft, caressing mouthfeel, with a rare combination of richness and elegance. I wish I could say more, but I don't think I can afford another bottle! :(
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9/22/2012 - canan wrote: 98 Points
KYD #1.4: Huge intensity on the nose and just packed with pine needles and grass with a hint of farts and green bell-pepper. Quite developed nose but still a lovely freshness.
Young and intense palate with a lovely spicy structure with plenty of acidity. Some pine needles and cedar coming through in the quite complex spicyness.
Very juicy and fresh and a huge acidity but still very easy to drink. An elegant style but still a huge wine!
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9/22/2012 - coremill wrote: 96 Points
Dan turns 30, We drink 82s (Keens Steakhouse): Oh wow. Still dark, midnight color, still opaque. Huge nose of cassis and plums and blackberries, florals, molasses. With air the florals fade and and a spicy, curryish cigar note emerges that was almost vosne-like in its aisan spice elements. In the mouth the wine has incredible richness and texture, like a down pillow drenched in black fruit. There's still some chewy tannin but the tannin is so soft and refined and buried by the fruit that you hardly notice it, and wine amazingly manages to be as rich and soft as it is while maintaining a sense of structure and poise -- I've never had a wine this rich that wasn't also overly heavy. If i'm quibbbling I'd note that the finish wasn't quite as long as I might have expected, but that's picking nits. Utterly fantastic.
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9/8/2012 - henweigh123 wrote: 99 Points
1.5L Magnum. I am not a silver-tongued wine writer, but I can say that this is still a wonderful wine. The tannins are gone. It is a voluptuous, fruity, feminine Bordeaux. There is at least 5 years left to go and perhaps 10. It was as dark in color as a 2002 Domaine Jacques Prieur Clos Vougeot we had with it. This is still my "go to" special occasion bottle and will be for a long while.
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8/25/2012 - Mark H. LeQuire wrote: 99 Points
No flaws. No sediement. Major rim variation. Beautiful nose of red fruit. Classic old world. No tannins. low alcohol. Medium finish. Just perfect. At back end of window. But, still I would think 5-10 years left in bottle. beautiful.
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8/19/2012 - JeffW wrote: 99 Points
Spectacular wine. Good add to the bucket list;-))
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8/10/2012 - tbabes wrote: 100 Points
The fill was well into the neck and the cork was incredibly sound; an impeccably stored bottle that looked more like a 30 month vs 30 year old wine. Aromas of lilly, fennel, black truffle, plum, cassis and briar patch; literally perfect on the nose. Medium-bodied, with a silky and velvety texture, great balance and depth, with perfect focus and grip on the long and incredibly complex finish. A perfect wine.
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7/26/2012 - Sleepy Dave wrote: 96 Points
Alcohol :: NA
PnP. Level into neck and dark garnet core, promising condition. The nose was display some funky note and bouquet was pretty soft but this is not uncommon for the very first pour from such an old wine. This classic juice continues to shape up in the glass and display absolutely seductive bouquet of mint, leather, truffle with endless layer of blackcurrant, dried fig, plum and floral notes. Matured and quite dominant with secondary note yet the liveliness is truly impressive. Medium - full bodied, one of the silkiest, elegance sensation ever, she caresses the palate brilliantly, with enormous depth and seductive notes of sweet dark fruits, leather and filled with inner perfume. A little bit of tannin grips for excellent presence too. She continues to grow in the mouth with endless finished, ethereal and fine. Long life ahead. Bow!
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7/24/2012 - Humpymac wrote: 99 Points
Absolutely amazing! Perfectly mature, smooth, amazing nose, long finish and plenty of fruit. A truly great wine.
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6/18/2012 - Jeff Leve wrote: 100 Points
Smoke, tobacco, cigar box, cassis, wet earth, truffle, spice and forest floor pop from the glass the moment the wine is poured. The real fireworks start with the luxurious, glycerin filled, sensuous, silk and velvet textures. Layers of opulent, polished perfectly ripe dark berries remain on your palate for close to 60 seconds. If you want to know why people spend big money on Bordeaux, this is the wine to experience.
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6/10/2012 - spendergast wrote: 98 Points
Decanted but started drinking immediately. Beautiful fruit with impeccable balance, long finish. The fruit diminished quite a bit after about two hours - I would recommend drinking fairly soon after opening.
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6/7/2012 - danielk168 wrote: 95 Points
Part of a 6 bottle vertical: 76, 82, 89, 90, 95, 98. No doubt a class above the other 5 bottles although 90 put on quite a show as well. Liked both these 2 vintages best. 89 had great aromatics but not as pleasing when drank. 76 was still enjoyable with some aromatics and very smooth palate. 95 still too young and powerful, need a long decant. 98 good aromatics but otherwise did not gave much.
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5/4/2012 - overhill wrote: 96 Points
Bordeaux night at Matt's (with wives) (Matt's house): For me this lived up to the hype. Worried at first due the completely soaked cork, but it turned out to be a perfect specimen with a dark purple color and clear rim. Insane depth on the nose of soft smelly cheese, green olive tapenade, earthy dampness, and slight pencil lead. Intoxicating and otherworldly. Super fresh and almost austere at first, this put on considerable weight in the glass and was truly singing after four hours. Finished long with more green olives and stewed berries.
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5/3/2012 - lepetitchateau wrote: 91 Points
From 5 liter; the nose was classic Bordeaux lead pencils, but the nose is the best aspect of this wine because it lacks heart, there is no fruit. Seems there is big bottle variation in this wine given others comments.
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4/25/2012 - jeff nowak wrote: 98 Points
dinner @ ann colgin's home. majesterial, and the clear WOTN for me. i suppose it's all about provenance as i see opinions of this all over the board. direct from the winery, and superb bottle preperation = near perfect performance. i don't have enough experience to tell anyone to drink or hold, but it's hard for me to believe this will get better to my palate. this bottle was almost youthful, and what was interesting is that it had a little of all three stages of development overlapping each other. that's a very rare occurrence in my experience.
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4/25/2012 - kstoddard wrote: 97 Points
"The Dinner" Featuring Six Bordeaux Luminaries (Ann Colgin's and Joe Wender's Home): Dark ruby hue. Blackberry fruit on the nose. Tastes of blackberry, cherry, cedar, pencil lead and prune. Beautiful balance. Incredibly complex with a finish that lasts for minutes. What a masterpeice. My personal WOTN.
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4/21/2012 - johnh1001 wrote: 99 Points
Another great bottle of this wine. Decanted and drank over 3 hours. Full, rich, round, leather, lead pencil, some mint and deep dark fruit and earth on the palate. Incredibly smooth and a long finish that just glides for minutes. Probably my favorite Bordeaux.
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4/13/2012 - RAD2626 wrote: 80 Points
Had a bottle in January that was marvelous. Pulled a bottle from same case tonight and could not have been more disappointed. Strong brick color. Almost no fruit. Decanted for two hours to no avail. While not stewed, nothing positive to note.
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4/5/2012 - PatrikO wrote: 97 Points
Bottle in very good shape, haven't had this in a while so a nice surprise that it delivered yet again, in no way does it seem to be past its peak or tired, just full on opulence.
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3/4/2012 - Eric wrote:
1982 Bordeaux at 30 years courtesy of Mark Taylor (Atlanta, GA): One sniff and I wrote "sultry - PL" in my notes. This is my desert island wine, and it almost never disappoints. Maybe a touch of seawater on the nose but then such depth on the silky, luscious and full palate. An easy pick and my favorite of the flight.
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3/3/2012 - Serge Birbrair wrote:
I wouldn't call it "monumental 100 pointer" Parker called it. Not bad wine, but not that much better than it's "bastard" sibling. If I didn't know the wine was given 100 points, I'd never guessed it on my own.
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2/25/2012 - Nedder_travels_the_world wrote: 100 Points
BIG nose, so smooth! lots of fruit still left despite the age, the balance is beyond belief. the finish is long, dazzling and 60+ seconds. sweet cassis, dark fruits, just enough acidity and a finish that tingles the tongue. everything you could ever want. best bordeaux i've ever had. my wife found some soft fruits, age and finesse was very apparent, spice box and cigar box.
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2/17/2012 - pdemaio wrote: 96 Points
Simply stunning. Just starting to brick. Great complexity and strong fruit with restraint and a touch of that french funk. Great french oak. Was wonderful at open and improved over 3 hours. At around the 5 hour it faded fast, so you may want minimize a long decant. PDQ96
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2/5/2012 - Rezy13 wrote: 96 Points
Super Bowl 2012 (Roswell, GA): Copper rim with a deep core. Fat and sweet with juicy, red fruit and some brown sugar. Utterly silky and despite the low pH could drink & smell this wine all day long. I also called it blind- boo yah.
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2/5/2012 - MayValley wrote: 97 Points
Wow this was a stellar wine! A good friend of mine served me this wine blind. It had such a complex nose of leather, leadpencil, the scent of a forest in the autumn, some roasted tones etc... In the mouth it was very smooth, and filled with very fine fruit... and oh so complex. I guessed it to be a bordeaux from the 80's and probably a pauillac. The wine is perfectly mature now, and i do not think it will benefit from more cellaring.
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1/25/2012 - RAD2626 wrote: 97 Points
One of the stars in an all-82 tasting. Fruit still present and consistent. Only slight rust around the rim. Terrific legs, nose, finish. Deserves to be included in the list of 82's that continue to be wonderful. Held its own against the first growths.
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12/12/2011 - Burgundy Al wrote: 93 Points
1982 Bordeaux First Growth (and Comparable) Dinner (Carlos - Highwood, IL): Served single blind with other 82 Super Seconds. Ripe lush black fruit aromas with intense spice. Very robust blackberry and currant flavors. Well integrated tannins with moderate acidity. Lots of power on finish, to me this showed a trace more ripe character than I'd prefer, but most people at the table didn't find that at all.
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12/12/2011 - fclarity wrote: 94 Points
Tasted blind, this wine displayed a red/purple center with a touch of orange at the rim. The medium intensity nose of black cherries, brown spice, soil, and some violets was attractive.
Not surprisingly, this wine needed over 3 hours of decanter time to blow off the mustiness and show its best. The mouth was rich and ripe with solid acidity and great length. I would say this wine is just coming into its zone and will still probably improve. However, it is certainly enjoyable now with adequate air.
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12/5/2011 - Jeff Leve wrote: 93 Points
This was not a perfect bottle. So, please do not think this is indicative of well stored examples. There were no visual clues that the wine would be less than stellar. In the nose, along with smoke, truffle, cassis, cedar and spice, red fruit aromas became apparent as well. Plush in texture, but lacking the richness and opulence found in better examples, the wine ended with a touch of tart flavors. Another example of only good bottles and no great wines.
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11/19/2011 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
It had a gorgeous perfume of smoke, cedar, violets, cassis, liquorice and leather. In the mouth there were no hard edges and waves of creamy, perfumed fruits lapped around the gums. Tannins and acidity feel like they’ve been folded into all of the plush fruits but it has great vibrancy and precision.
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10/10/2011 - Fielding wrote: 98 Points
Drank from magnum. Decanted one hour. Shockingly youthful in glass, with no bricking. Nose of dark fruits, with tobacco, smoke and truffles. Black cherries on the palate, with tobbaco leaf, plums, currants, smoke, cedar and espresso. Long, long finish. Elegant and balanced, with a velvety mouthfeel. Can a wine be sexy? Thank you, Peter, for the surprise of a lifetime.
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10/6/2011 - wineismylife wrote: 97 Points
WIML97+
Tasted non blind. Opened and decanted for sediment before serving immediately. Followed over about an hour.
Garnet color in the glass, clear looking throughout with just a little bit of bricking. Stunning nose of briar patch, rose petals, herbs du Provence and tobacco taking on secondary and tertiary aromas with air of caramel, cinnamon, potpourri and a hint of currant. Flavors of berries, cherries, raspberries, plums and currants. Medium acidity, resolved tannins, full bodied. Drink now, might hold for some time to come but seems to be at the sweet spot or perhaps a hair past.
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9/17/2011 - DonWinspear wrote: 97 Points
Garnet in the glass with some distinct bricking color. The nose is elegant: truffle, cassis, terroir, cassis, hint of smoke. On the palate, the wine lives up to the reputation of the vintage and chateaux. Vevety smooth with just enough acidity. The palate is complex and refined with layers of aged dark fruit, cassis, floral notes, a hint of terroir, just a hint of smoke. The initial taste was a pop and pour. But as I left the full glass to air over the course of 60 minutes, the wine continued to evolve and expand. Glorious finish.
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9/4/2011 - georgeohr wrote:
Once again, a great bottle of this wine. Did not decant. Added significant weight with an hour of air.
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8/19/2011 - Ibetian wrote: 100 Points
One of the greatest wines I've enjoyed. drunk at our 32nd anniversary dinner from restaurant cellar. Opened and tasted about an hour before dinner and not decanted. Incredible, soaring nose of beguiling complexity: cassis, red fruit, earth, smoke tobacco, it seems futile to list all the elements of such an enchanting nose. Reminds me of the old MASH line, "There aren't enough Os in smoooothe." A master of the Bordeaux trick of being intense on the palate while feeling light and perfectly balanced in the mouth. The definition of elegance. This is why we cellar wines. No young wine can offer this sensational combination of complexity, elegance and both hedonistic and intellectual appeal.
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8/13/2011 - tbabes wrote: 98 Points
The fill was well into the neck and the cork was pristine. The sommelier at Jean Georges opened, but did not decant, about 1 hour prior to service. A ruby red core with no amber. Aromas of plums, cassis, and fennel; further airing revealed notes of truffle and earth. Medium bodied, with a velvety texture, an incredible sense of expansiveness, great depth, balance and complexity. The finish lasted for well over a minute! As an aside, I think this wine would have once again merited a 100 point score, but the dining room at Jean Georges was at least 80 degrees tonight, and the wine quickly warmed from cellar temperature (I brought it and paid corkage) to a temperature that was not ideal. In hindsight, I should have asked them to stick the bottle in an ice bucket!
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7/16/2011 - danielk168 wrote: 95 Points
Arrived late at a tasting and wine had already been poured and waiting. Aromatics was amazingly rich, complex and pleasing, makes you want to taste the wine right away, and it was soooooo good, could not put it down and finished the glass way too quickly, meanwhile, the bottle is gone! I still wanted more! Loved this vintage.
my WOTN out of 5 bottles.
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7/10/2011 - Alex H wrote: 92 Points
Medicinal herbs florals and sweet leather. Beautiful palate of rich fruits but delicious. Approachable and loud but with star quality.
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7/2/2011 - KC Bloodlines wrote:
Showing currants, raspberries, smoked meats, dried flowers, fresh figs, graphite, cranberries, cherries, cocoa powder, tobacco/cigar box and fresh roasted coffee. The color was beautiful and the tannins and acidity were wonderfully balanced.
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6/11/2011 - LeatherPalate wrote: 98 Points
Beautiful aromas of cassis, rich tobacco, leather, black tea, venison, dried roses, and dark berries that just keep coming at you in waves. It's Like you're surfing in
paradise and the next wave is better than the last with no ebb in sight. There is a sweet spiciness on the palate as well as loads of gobs of tobacco,
dark cherries, cassis, leather, cedar, dried flowers. Perfect balance. Elegant, pure, and oh so long... With each taste you contemplate and discover
something new and wait until it feels right to go in again.. This is a show stopper..
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6/4/2011 - Mingmong wrote: 94 Points
Leather, tobacco, cassis, underbrush and earth. Big, silky, velvety, bitter sweet dark choc, capsicums. Full and round and long finish. Mascular wine vs the lafleur de gay 1990 which is more akin to what my palate craves in a wine. This is a great Parker wine no doubt, but lacks the elegance and finese which I absolutely dig in a great wine. A very good wine which I believe can go for 5-10 years. When reminiscing the dinner just 4 days back a few times, I find myself lowering the score on this wine. Could be the expectation i had from a 100pt RP wine, or to the reputation that preceded it. And I found myself thinking more about the Lafleur de gay.
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6/4/2011 - Paul S wrote: 97 Points
Alex's Bachelor's Party (Imperial Treasure Super Peking Duck, Paragon): Absolutely incredible, one of the very best Bordeaux I have had the privilege of drinking, and unlike a painfully young bottle 1982 Mouton a little while back, quite at peak and a supreme pleasure to drink. This was my favourite wine of the night, just edging out Alex's two brilliant whites. On first blush, this was clearly different from the 1990 Fleur de Gay that we served alongside, a more masculine wine to the Pomerol's feminine softness, yet somehow still with a sense of finesse and elegance that suggested left-bank but not quite so - our suspicions shifted to Lalande with that start. A bit of air, a bit of time, and wow, what a bouquet this had. It showed tobacco, capsicum, pure cassis and stewed tea leaves, a tiny hint of sweet spice - a dropdead gorgeous nose, full of bright, fragrant aromas and complex, earthy undercurrants. On the other hand, the palate was intensely smoky at first, with a whiff of cigar smoke filling the mouth on the attack. As that wafted away, it was quickly replaced with some sweet and absolutely delicious cassis and plum flavours, playing on a background of earth, forest floor and tobacco leaf. The fruit had a deliciously voluptuous ripeness to it that was not quite classic left-bank, a warm-year type of yumminess. Make no mistake though, the wine was perfectly balanced for all that voluptouness. It had beautifully layered depth, but was still always pure, clear, with a wonderful First Growth-like transperancy matched by beautifully integrated acidity that gave the wine a lovely freshness. We all thought it was a Pauillac from its sense of strength and structure - this was a wine with superb symmetry, yet somehow, it was symmetry in a more elegant, feminine shape, not quite a Mouton, Lafite or Latour, or even a Baron - it was definitely be a Lalande then, and a top-notch one at that. To top it all off, it had a long, long, long finish with waves of cassis, plums and tobacco leaf. Not a classic Bordeaux maybe, but this was a great, great wine, and when paired with our roasted lamb shoulder with drips of mint jelly, absolutely nuts, sending all sorts of taste receptors tingling like crazy on the palate. This was a pairing so perfect it beggars description. What a way to end the reds. An '82 Lalande, at peak, and crazy good.
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6/1/2011 - KeithAkers wrote: 99 Points
nose: absolutely sublime and moment stopping nose that is just sickly deep and guided more by finesse and balance than raw power. Glorious and supremely polished tones of tobacco, cedar, dark berry tones, violets, roses, bits of game tones, dark red fruits, and cassis all occur over the course of the wine being open. It was ever changing, but it was always great and only got better and deeper
taste: this was like pure satin on the palate with sexy and drop dead gorgeous medium/full bodied tones of cassis, dark red fruits, tobacco, cedar, roses, venison and all sorts of floral tones. There is such a refined nature to the tones and the tannins still show themselves as well along with medium acidity that provides this with a real beautiful backbone
overall: there's so much to say, and yet almost nothing to say other than this was everything it was supposed to be. It received a 3 hr decant and was then slowly drunk over the course of dinner. This was beautiful from the outset, but after it had taken on a good amount of air was it firing on every single cylinder. There was almost no real bricking on this, though it was a more claret color. This wine can only go on for years without any worry whatsoever
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6/1/2011 - Pre-emptive wrote: 96 Points
Peaked but is still drinking really well. Big lovely nose and some sweet tannins.
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5/25/2011 - clementwolf wrote: 99 Points
Dad's 60th birthday. Fantastic wine!! Smoky, earthy nose at first, evolving into violets, tomatoes, currants and hints of berries. Silky smooth on the palate, wine just "slipped" down my throat.... and the finish, my God!! I can still feel the after taste a minute after I swallowed, great stuff!! Still a bit of tannins, and a tiny bit worse than the bottle I had a couple years ago, can't say what is missing hence the 99 pt instead of perfect score, looking forward to trying my next bottle.
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5/22/2011 - johnh1001 wrote: 98 Points
My first time with this wine and i am so impressed. Ive been a fan of 85,86,88,89 but have not had the 82. Opened and drank over a two hour period. Cork was soaked through and fill was base neck. A smokey, beefy nose at first which turned sweeter with notes of violet over time. On the palate a classic pauliac but was was so striking was the texture. Nothing out of place. Full and creamy and a finish lasting for 60sec. Look forward to more.
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5/7/2011 - Evil Homer wrote: 97 Points
Beautiful as always. The nose was singing tonight. Smooth and long finish.
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4/16/2011 - dream wrote: 100 Points
When this wine fires, as it did tonight, it is one of the greatest wines to drink in this decade. Beyond most first growths I've had. The purest example of the glories of aged Bordeaux.
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4/13/2011 - Hodby wrote: 97 Points
Medium dark red, slightly pale-edged; young appearance. Stunning aromatics of cigar box, menthol, lead pencil, blackberry, leather. Medium-low tannin, medium acidity. Palate is dense and supple, with a silky texture. Flavors are as rich as I have had from Bordeaux. Finishes with repeated, sustained waves of leathery fruit and acids - wonderful. Bottle #3 of four.
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4/11/2011 - mattjohnson_78 wrote: 100 Points
You can smell this bottle from a mile away. One of the few scores I totally agree with Parker on...
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3/11/2011 - tbabes wrote: 100 Points
I brought this to our dinner at Meadowood; the sommelier opened it for us about an hour before service, but did not decant. This was another pristine bottle, with a fill well into the neck and a fantastic cork. A lovely ruby-red core, with a hint of garnet at the rim. Extremely outgoing on the bouquet, with complex and exotic aromas of cedary black fruits, lilly, truffle and roasted herbs. Equally impressive on the palate, with a lush and round texture, stunning depth of flavor, perfect balance, and a long, complex, and elegant finish. For me, this is a profound wine, and perfect in every way!
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2/23/2011 - darvid wrote:
Wines Drwine Would Hate (Nopa (SF)): Purchased on release and opened by a very generous friend. Classical cedar, cigar box, lead pencil Pauillac aromas. Extraordinarily well balanced in the mouth with fruit (not oak) sweetness married to firm acids and held in place by a delicate framework of tannin. Medium density at most, so there is no sense of weight, yet this wine is utterly authoritative, with a long, clear-as-a-bell finish. The expression "transcends the vintage" usually means a great success from a weak year. Here, it means that none of the limiting characteristics of '82 (e.g., impenetrable concentration, extraction and density) impair the experience. One of the best Pichons I've ever had the pleasure to drink.
P.S. - When leaving this bottle to try our last sips of the Pommard, I commented that the contrast between the two wines vividly illustrated the difference in social character of Burgundy vs. Bordeaux. More on that subject another time?
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2/20/2011 - PIntag wrote: 97 Points
Pop 'n pour - consumed over about 2 hours. Absolutely fabulous. Explosive cedar, leather, and kirsch on the nose. On the palate, fresh and vibrant, completely balanced, with gorgeous spicy fruit and layers of leather, cedar, caramel, and a bunch of other pleasing flavors that I couldn't immediately identify. Silky mouthfeel with almost fully resolved sweet soft tannins and a long, delicious finish. Seems to be peaking right now. Good provenance on this bottle. Drunk alongside the 1982 Château Gruaud Larose, which was also wonderful, but not quite as good as this bottle. Had a bottle of the 1981 about a month ago and this is in a different league -- really illustrates the difference between a mediocre vintage and a great one.
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1/26/2011 - Remony wrote: 95 Points
Goedhuis Pichon Lalande Tasting & Dinner (Hibiscus Restaurant, London): First magnum: Red fruits on the nose, raspberries and strawberries. Colour somewhat opaque, even cloudy. Some alcohol to the taste, lead pencil & cigar in the background, but subdued. A lot going on here. But in the end a little bitter. Not wholly a pleasant wine. (88-90)
Second magnum: No red fruits. Very much more serious. Intense colour, and brighter. Quite a lot of alcohol on nose. This wine is in a different league. Much richer. Quite thrilling. (95 for this magnum)
[Thomas Do Chi Nam: A very famous Pichon Lalande Vintage, a Parker 100 point wine.]
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1/22/2011 - dream wrote: 100 Points
I've probably consumed 3-4 cases of this wine over the years and it has been wonderful to drink at every stage of its life. However, I must say that right now it is at such a plateau of perfection that of all the older claret I have the privilege to drink, this bottle tonight left me speechless. Perhaps not since I consumed a perfect bottle of '59 La Miss some years ago, I simply cannot find anything that is missing from this wine. So perfectly balanced with hints of black fruits with this incomparable texture of liquid graphite and that lovely peanuty quality of aged Pauillac. The finish is so gloriously smooth and complex. I've only given an handful of wines a 100 rating over the years but by a process of elimination, I can't give this perfect example of this wine anything less.
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1/12/2011 - hm$ wrote: 100 Points
spectacular bottle
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12/31/2010 - Old Course 72 wrote: 98 Points
Wonderful. Deep dark color, tight nose, balanced deep flavor with long finish.
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12/25/2010 - phenricsson wrote: 99 Points
81;58. Perfect looking bottle with perfect fill. Extremely light and mature looking but beautiful, clean, clear and intense. Classic mature Bordeaux nose but with intense high fruit. On palate it again has the classic Bordeaux but with a more intense, spicy fruit. Long, long aftertaste. This is consistently my favourite 82 Bordeaux.
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12/24/2010 - dthompson wrote: 82 Points
Over the hill but still drinkable ( barely)
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12/21/2010 - campingfleurie wrote: 94 Points
Blind, in a v diverse tasting. There’s dazzling light at the rim, but the nose is initially restrained. A clean variant of the classic mushroom which suggests Bordeaux. Faint old socks, sweet red cherry, eucalyptus. Then on to some disappointment with a palate that was fluffy compared to the linear structures of the preceding 1990 Burg. More red cherry, menthol and distinct grilled red pepper. This is gentle and balanced, and I feel it’s a vintage thing rather than age: classic Bordeaux tannins don’t deliver this. Then the finish: now we’re going somewhere. Red pepper, then textural, divine coffee grinds, raised and vitalised by cedar. DM reveals the wine and explains that it was decanted 4.5 hours before and has yielded into his preferred style: Claret as “just a nice gentle drinking wine”. I got a splash more, which I sent around the table to share those amazing finish characteristics which were by now alive in the aroma. It nearly got back to me before DM innocently drained it. Three final drops from the bottle were still able to do most of the same trick. Ended with one tiny flicker of dog poo. What would I have rated if drinking a bottle? Maybe it could have been served better (less air). I don’t think it has the complete set of components for me though: rather understated in flavour and especially in structure. 95-96 with that hypothetical bottle at home? 94 at the tasting. It has balance of a sort, so I’m sure it will last for another decade. Increasingly as I write this I’m realising that it (and to some extent ripe, low-acid Bordeaux in general), is not for me.
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12/16/2010 - bamawine wrote: 99 Points
near perfection- my concept of what ideal bordeaux should be-all components integrated and harmonious
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12/12/2010 - KSC02 wrote: 98 Points
A superb showing of this already legendary wine. The color showed no signs of bricking. Amazingly fresh red in color. Aromas: Young and lively at first, settled with time into a classic, textbook, Bordeaux nose. Beautifully balanced and absolutely seamless on the palate. Looooong finish. A superb showing from this bottle, we followed it for hours in glass. Solidly in its drinking window, it has years of life ahead of it. Stunning
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12/10/2010 - Charlie Carnes Likes this wine: 99 Points
Cassie/Tempe Adoption Referral Celebration at Home (Home): Pop and splash decant into Juliska water pitcher.
-Bordeaux *nearing* apogee! So incredible! The color is of crystalline rubies. The maturing nose has soil, dry fall leaves that were just wetted, lavender (sweet though, not volatile), soft dark cherries, claret nuanced and layered. So few wines ever have this taste. What can I say, it's a Bordeaux of epic proportions. Dark cherries and dark currants, fullish. Not too structured or powerful, but long as days. For its age, it is quite lively and fresh. I love Bordeaux when it gets to this point, but it is also hard to describe. Dark and red fruits that are not young, but nowhere near decaying. Earth and aged or decaying leaf and tobacco, but not decayed, just aged. Its funny, I think to myself that 1982 was a "modern" vintage, but man do I wish more wines were made like this one. 99
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11/27/2010 - Jossik wrote: 96 Points
Colto nella sua maturità perfetta, meglio di quello bevuto qualche settimana fa. Il naso è carnoso, sensuale, con tocchi profondi di tabacco, molto carico e speziato. La bocca è quasi perfetta, tannino molto ben bilanciato e presente, bella lunghezza
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11/15/2010 - Jeff Leve wrote: 97 Points
The best bottles are showy, opulent and decadent. This bottle was close to the level found in the best bottles. Tobacco, plums, prunes, cedar, truffle and blackberry started off the perfume. In the mouth, wonderful layers of ripe, cassis, blackberry and black cherry fill your palate with textures akin to satin and silk. This elegant, polished, concentrated and intense wine is the thinking man’s sex bomb!
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11/7/2010 - Jossik wrote: 94 Points
Naso subito esplosivo di spezie (pepe), con bel tabacco scuro e note piraziniche ma leggere. Naso molto intrigante e suadente. Bell'inizio bocca ma finale piü scarico. Poco rotondo in bocca. Al naso poi escono note di sottobosco molto buone. Dopo esce il caffè di quelli buoni.
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11/6/2010 - mwanasheria wrote: 96 Points
1982 Bordeaux tasting; 11/5/2010-11/6/2010 (Bremen, Germany): Candy, velvet, silk. Unbelievable for a Pauillac and so elegant. Really great.
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10/30/2010 - bestdamncab Likes this wine: 94 Points
Lovely nose of green pepper, cedar and tobacco, more of the same on the palate, luscious tasting, almost too much green pepper for me. touch of bitterness on the long finish. Third place of seven 1982 Bordeaux tasted.
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10/30/2010 - Mark162 wrote: 96 Points
sublime.
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10/20/2010 - spaniel wrote: 96 Points
Really an extraordinarily good bottle of wine. Captivating beguiling nose of cedar, red fruit, leather and earth. Soft opulent palate with tannions mostly resolved. Still plenty of fruit. Minerally earthy finish. Not tired at all.
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10/12/2010 - La Cave d'Argent wrote: flawed
Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande Vertical Dinner (The Marine Room, La Jolla, California): This bottle was recently procured from auction by one of the attendees (for this tasting). It showed an appropriate deep red/garnet robe and a moderately intense nose, but I suspect that at some point in its history it was heat-damaged. Not entirely unpleasant, with red currant, mushroom and smoke aromas on the nose, there was a note of stewed tomato in the background on both the nose and palate. With medium acidity and soft residual tannins, the middle faded and the finish was medium-length at best. Having tasted this wine several times over the past 25 years, it did not seem to be where I would expect. This underscores the saying that, with older vintages such as this, there are no good wines, only good bottles.
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10/4/2010 - Margauxguy wrote: 98 Points
HArd for me to give a score higher than this to anything. Had this with a rare combination of 2000 DRC Richebourg and Romanee St. Vivant and a 2001 Latche. Being the Burgundy loer that I am, I thought this would be a poor sister. Unbelievable, amny of the comments have it right. Rich, sweet, smooth and supple. Perhaps one of my favorite 1982. Power and lots of life left, with wonderful silky tannins. Despite it's secong classe status, all of the power and luxury of first growths. Dark berries, deep color accross the glass. Way better than the 83, just a tie me up and spank me wine. WOW WOW WOW!
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9/25/2010 - sdr Likes this wine: 97 Points
Yet another brilliant example of this much lauded wine. Tremendously fruity (cherry, blueberry, strawberry, blackberry) but the sweet tannins and adequate acids let you know this is not some simple fruit bomb. Irresistible and "hedonistic." The only question is how long it will last.
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8/23/2010 - BradE wrote:
From 375. I've never found this wine to be as other-worldly as the general consensus. It's very good, and this was a great bottle, but heck, I'd drink the 1983 just as readily, and at a third the price.
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8/21/2010 - sdr Likes this wine: 96 Points
This was one of the best examples of this luscious but somewhat variable wine, purchased from Premier Cru many years ago. Mature color, bricky rim, healthy deep garnet center. Gorgeous aroma of mixed dark and light berries. Almost sweet in the mouth, smooth, soft, medium weight flavors. Totally delicious. Tannins resolved but there's enough structure to let you know it's Bordeaux.
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8/19/2010 - Aldimedia wrote: 98 Points
Unglaublich, hatte selten so einen Wein!
Well, here is the story to this excellent bottle: It was kept in a very humid cellar underneath a cottage with 1600 other very rare bordeaux bottles. Probably never stored above 15 degrees. Due to these conditions, the labels were destroyed. So we got this bottle (and 3 others from 1982: Margaux, Trotanoy, Fleur-Petrus) for a reasonable price. We opened all wines and did not decant them (were afraid of immediate oxidation). This one turned out to be our favorite. The wine is just excellent and shows beutiful nose. Dark red colour. But I wouldn't store it any longer. More complex than the 1982 Margaux. Tasted fresh very plummy and had an interesting cola taste! Long finish.
So drink! Don't wait if you have a 0.75 bottle!
Thanks to Joe @ Steinfelsweine
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8/16/2010 - dream wrote: 97 Points
Purchased at a Zachys auction in 2009. This wonderful bottle needed a good two hours to throw off some green notes which initially gave me some concern. However, by the time dinner rolled around, this became so soft and silky with the most incredible liquid graphite flavor. When Bordeaux reaches this kind of pinnacle with proper aging, the experienced is virtually un-matched. The finish is so luxuriously complex with no hard edges whatsoever and the wine was such a perfect match with the softness of a Lobel's center-cut chateaubriand. This great, great wine is now fully mature and I can't see it improving but it is at such a gorgeous plateau. This is why we collect the stuff.
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8/1/2010 - wineshaman wrote: flawed
Oxidized
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7/9/2010 - Winevestor wrote: 98 Points
An unbelievable bottle of wine. A little mustiness which blew off quickly. Nose of old rose petals and mature blueberries. Full bodied an layers of complexity. Changed over the hour and the sandalwood and leather came out in waves. Amazing.
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6/18/2010 - englishman's claret wrote:
Post-boards-celebration (Watertown): Beautiful brick disc, deep robe. Somewhat shy nose, but really lovely perfume; very floral, lavender, cassis, tobacco, Christmas spices, mineral, very refined oak. Plush nose, plump body, caressing palate. Almost a bacon note on the finish. I suppose I was expecting this to be more extroverted and while it wasn't loud, it was beautiful. A wine that whispers how beautiful it is in lots of different ways rather than shouting it just the once. Just exudes class.
4.5/5
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6/11/2010 - Old Claret wrote: 94 Points
(94-95) AN drank with Ann Albin at Marcel’s for the latter’s 60th. Excellent, but not as good as the bottle we had with Ed and Miki. Perhaps because it was a little on the warm side?
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6/11/2010 - agebob wrote: 98 Points
Surprisingly acidic when first opened but it quickly evolved into a smooth complex wine. The initial flowery nose changed to suggest leather and earth and the flavor changed from dark fruits when first poured to earth, leather and loam as it evolved in the glass. Very complex. One thing consistent was the tannins - always there, but a layer or two under the primary flavors. Excellent
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6/8/2010 - dbkitc wrote: 99 Points
Drank this while making dinner so did not give it the right attention. That said, marvelous, classic Bordeaux that is perfectly mature. Fills the senses and lingers for a long, glorious finish. (99)
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5/29/2010 - Edclr wrote: 98 Points
Beautiful bottle. As good as it gets. Still showing hardly any brownish tinges. Fresh and vibrant, but totally ready to drink after an hour.
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5/28/2010 - tbabes wrote: 100 Points
The fill was into the neck and the cork was absolutely pristine; this bottle looked as though it had just come off the production line! As soon as I pulled the cork, heavenly aromas of ripe blackberry and cassis jumped from the bottle. In the glass, additional notes of plums, truffle and roasted herbs emerged; a truly profound bouquet! In the mouth, this was like liquid silk; perfectly round, expansive and lush, with no hard edges or anything out of balance. Layers and layers of flavor that fanned out across the palate -- the peacock's tail -- with an incredibly complex and long finish. I would say that this wine is at the absolute peak of maturity right now -- remember, this was a perfect bottle -- and I will be drinking my remaining bottles over the next 5 years. In summary, this wine moved me like no other in recent memory, and was truly a joy to experience.
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5/7/2010 - Anonymous Likes this wine: 97 Points
Just a delicious wine. Mature and smooth as silk. Totally integrated layers and layers of black fruit, mushrooms, licorice, leather, tobacco, and cedar. Wow.
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3/1/2010 - vinojones wrote: 89 Points
dark ruby color; elegant red raspberry, rhubarb, and red plum nose, light celery and cedar notes, still a hint of green on the nose and palate; very subtle mouth feel by 2010 standards, refreshing red raspberry, red plum flavors, good acid backbone,very pleasant but surprising how old fashioned it seems now; balanced, complex finish of berry fruit and light oak but I suspect far too subtle to get high scores from those that like '03, '05, '08 Bdx or the Calif Cults from the 90's onward.
Lalande is one of my perennial favorites but--- IF 82 is a great vintage and IF Lalande is a great 2nd then this bottle doesn't show it
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2/27/2010 - Eric Likes this wine: 97 Points
Always an otherworldy experience. Tobacco, mint, blood and cranberry. Textbook nose. Supple and wonderful palate but a little more acidic than normal.
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2/24/2010 - Ki Punwar wrote: 98 Points
Very dark and intense, with dark blackberry, shoe polish and lead pencil traits of a Paulliac. Very enjoyable and a wine to savor.
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2/15/2010 - ricknat1 wrote: flawed
Flawed bottle. Very disappointing
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2/13/2010 - kenmmm wrote: 98 Points
ruby color w/burnt tinge around edge; nose--eartth, mushroom, old wood like barn; taste--delicious chewy rasberry soil
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1/31/2010 - Mike V wrote: 97 Points
This is quite a wine. Opened and cosines over 4 hours. Started delicate ruby but gained depth throughout the night. Earth tobacco on the nose. Lovely red fruit with mature flavors. Will last for years. I wish I would have decanted.
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1/22/2010 - PanosKakaviatos Likes this wine:
Pichon vs Pichon NYC (New York, United States): Now here was a wine that totally impressed. Thomas had brought two bottles because he was worried about bottle variation. Indeed, I suspect that the first bottle was just a bit more open and easy than the second, but both lived up to Robert Parker’s “perfect” point score. A perfect example at least of great Bordeaux: the 1982 Pichon Lalande showed verve yet richness and exhibited various aromas and flavors, very appealing, delicious and complex. The finish was long, and I just wish I had not enjoyed the wine as quickly as I did. It was a wine moment that I still keep repeating in my head now as I write these notes, wishing that instead of writing about it, I could be drinking more. In any case, a beautiful way to end a wonderful evening. WOTN
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1/20/2010 - Margauxguy wrote: 99 Points
Perhaps the best 82 I have had, including Latour, Lafite and Mouton. Did not have the power, but sweet fruit, rich round and spectacular. Anyone want to sell some?
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1/14/2010 - premiercruclasse wrote: 92 Points
very smooth, but not as complex as i hoped. bottle had slight seepage, so that could explain the lack of character
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1/8/2010 - mariow wrote: 97 Points
a perfect bottle! intense red, just an edge of plum purple; right after opening already a very intense nose, berries, citrus, red pepper; very elegant and round on the pallate with a long great finish. One of the best wines I ever had. Did decant the bottle about 3 to 4 hours before serving
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1/1/2010 - bon vivant wrote:
New year's eve & day; 12/31/2009-1/1/2010: What a treat - this has always been a very special wine and it has been a long 4 + years since I last tasted this reference point wine. Several nice bottles of the 83 & 86 have been delicious but this bottle reminded me of what a great silky and seamless wine this can be and the glory that can be found in a Bordeaux. A wine soaked cork that refused to cooperate and some funky smokey herbaceous aromatics had us in doubt yet the dark ruby color with barely 2 mm of meniscus of which only the very edge was clear kept our hopes alive. After almost 4 hours and just in time for the Venison wellington to be served this wine left everyone around the table speechless. My ability to write TN's does not do this wine justice triple digits tonight.Silk.
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12/30/2009 - BradA wrote: 94 Points
This had been brought by a fellow I hadn't seen in years to a group tasting:
truffles, damp earth a little green olive and a sweet finish. Obviously the best wine of the night---regrettably, the majority of fellas were swilling it like apple juice, a wine made to savor.
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12/25/2009 - JLS wrote: 98 Points
This was a great wine, open for Xmas dinner with family.
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12/25/2009 - JLS wrote: 95 Points
This was a wonderful wine, open for Xmas dinner with family.
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12/25/2009 - BURG-ARESCO wrote: 99 Points
Color - slight bricking, but mostly a perfect youngish ruby red (after three decants); Smell - blew off some fuel and funk early; settled into a fresh light spicy aroma; Taste - the tannins were completely integrated, leaving a structured perfectly balanced, nuanced flavor of cloves, pepper, saddle, and cherries. A pure, smooth and moth watering wine. The best Bord I can remember tasting.
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12/10/2009 - vinojones wrote: 96 Points
Ruby red no bricking; Rich nose of tobacco leaf, moist loam,coffee and very dark choc.; incredibly smooth mouth feel, well integrated dried cherry/red plum fruits with richer meaty broth, mocha coffee flavors; complex, changing over time but always extremely sophisticated, smooth character, elegant; very long finish but not flamboyant- understated so don't pair with sexy "tarts"
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11/5/2009 - The Kid wrote:
Absolutely wonderful.
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10/29/2009 - Edclr wrote: 96 Points
I have had better bottles than this one. Still very youthful, tight for the first hour, then it blossomed, but at a lower level than the last couple of bottles. Still has 5-8 years of life remaining. Had 69 Leroy Echezeax with it, and much discussion about which to drink first. We decided to drink this first which I think was the correct order. The sweetness of the Echezeaux would have spoiled the enjoyment of this excellent wine.
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10/9/2009 - balassis wrote: 100 Points
Daily excursion with my friend George, at Tsivlou Lake (North Peloponese - Greece), 800 m. altitude.
This wine was a tribute to this wonderful landscape!
Deep ruby, with a brownish rim.
First impression: Mute nose and hursh tannis, dominated by flavors of berries.
After some aeration into the glasses La Comtesse was unwraped...
Layers of cedar, wet earth, spices, mushrooms, oaky vanilla, wild cherries and berries in a totaly perect balance.
A legendary bordeaux with at least 10 years of life!!!
Alongside Mouton Rothschild 1982, was WOTN.
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10/1/2009 - jcasey555 wrote: 96 Points
Drank after Proseco, Rose, Chablis, before Red Burgundy. Interesting terroir, earthy, meaty, great nose and finish, great meal
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9/12/2009 - KimberlyDo wrote: 100 Points
Dark red color and a great nose of cedar and pencil lead. On the palate the wine is long, with no tannins. This bottle showed little signs of age.
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8/5/2009 - DAN BAILEY wrote:
Lovely perfumed nose - easily the best of the night. Really sweet, precise and compact palate. Didn't quite seduce me in the way I'd hoped given all the hype. Still, a lovely claret.
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8/5/2009 - keelegl wrote: 98 Points
This is special wine here. Aromas jumping out of the glass with cassis, sweet berries, chocolate and a wonderful leathery note that lingered throughout the night. Really plush on the full-bodied with pure fruit hanging on the palate from beginning to end. Just seamless and beyond elegant. This wine really stood out from the crowd for me and was my easy WOTN.
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7/22/2009 - phenricsson wrote: 99 Points
100 point tasting in Sweden. WOTF for me and the group. Especially in the beginning it was superb but it did lose a bit in the glass. This wine is always showing great. It feels like it will not last many more years, but it has been the same for 15 years. Fat, soft mouthfeel and great intensity and purity. Very, very long, pleasant aftertaste. Great sweetness, but with the salt, ash and complexity to still make it a serious wine. 99p.
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7/17/2009 - plitton wrote: 94 Points
Pichon Lalande Vertical ('75, '78, '82, '88): Popped and poured. Great clear color. This was classically balanced and a succinct, refined experience. It needed about 30 minutes in the glass to open up. After about an hour is showed lots of tar and petroleum in the nose.
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7/5/2009 - svdheijden wrote: 95 Points
I rated this wine 95 points, but at some stage scores would be around 90-92. Opened and decanted three hours before tasting. Good level, into neck. Color shows age, nose at first very sweet, hardly any fruit and a little flat. Sexy, but not as elegant and complex as one would expect. Taste at first very sweet as well, with cedar, chocolate and tobacco. We were a little disappointed because the Talbot 1982 we were tasting at the same time showed better! After cooling the bottle a few degrees the wine improved considerably. Thick concentrated layers of dark (but still very sweet) fruit (cassis) appeared, and it showed more elegance and body.
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7/4/2009 - rnellans wrote: 96 Points
A 100 pt Parker wine and if you have it, you will see why...Absolutely gorgeous...Dark, dark color with an amber edge. Huge nose of tobacco, dark cherries, lilies that jumps out of the glass. Great on the palate...Lush mid-palate and long on the finish.....flat part of the drinking plateau..It has some life ahead.
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7/2/2009 - Jeff Leve wrote: 98 Points
This round, soft, supple, opulent and plush Bordeaux wine is filled with sexy, ripe, spicy fruit. The powerful, complex nose gets you started, but the supple texture in the mouth is where the real pleasure is truly released. Interestingly, often when I taste wines from Bordeaux, they show much younger than they do in the states. But this bottle was at the same level of maturity as the 82 Pichon's from my cellar. No real hurry to drink it. This has remained at the same stellar level of maturity for the past several years.
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6/23/2009 - reichken wrote: 94 Points
Sunny Lunch in Hampsted- decanted a few hours.a little lightening around the edges but not much, great sexy nose of black fruit and a touch of cherries. there was a little mustiness around but it was blew right off, in the mouth this was great, tart black fruit, some tobacco and just nice and lush from front to back, had a nice medium long finish and quite a youthful weight to it. this bottle was in great shape and has years of pleasure left in it. great with the steaks
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5/29/2009 - Miceri wrote: 95 Points
Blue berries; sweetish taste
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5/9/2009 - rstark wrote: 94 Points
MOPA 100 Point Wine Tasting (Rancho Santa Fe, CA): Showing more age than the other ‘82’s at this event. Fabulous nose, but in palate the fruit is really start to recede. Meaty, truffly, but missing something. Flatlined in the finish.
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4/13/2009 - HIT wrote: 100 Points
Revisited this favorite of mine once again. Wow! The nose is by far the most sedictive of the wines I have tasted, filling your senses with black fruit and what I could best describe as crowberry heath (I have been trying for some time to find the right description - this is quite close. It probably represents the earthy notes combined with the strong black fruit). Very rich, sensual on the palate and with the same beautiful and looooooooong finish. Itremains my favorite.
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4/6/2009 - PatrikO wrote: 98 Points
Red Bordeaux does not come much better than this. Had this bottle along 82 Cheval Blanc and 82 Cos. The Cheval seemed tired in comparison and although it was delicious it has definitely passed it's peak. Not sure the bottle of Cos was 100%, it was nice, but not outsrtanding.The Lalande on the other hand was monumental much more concentrated and darker in colour with a very fragnant nose. Still lots of life left, fills your mouth with black fruit, tobacco and a long lingering after taste. Sublime!
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4/5/2009 - sdr Likes this wine: 95 Points
I brought two of these to BWE DC 2009 as part of the blind tasting. It utterly fooled me by being ripe, luscious, voluptuous, rich; just plain decadent with cherry, chocolate, raspberry flavors and perfect balance. It was the clear favorite of the group and mine, too. I was confident it was the '85 Margaux but then I did not get any of the six wines correct.
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3/7/2009 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 98 Points
Great Wine Dinner (Rheingau Gourmet & Wine Festival Hattenheim, Germany): Feminine, charming, fleshy, perfectly harmonious, beguiling; cedar and blackcurrant, almost Burgundian in its elegance, ripe acidity, excellent length. At peak, a perfect bottle, drink up.
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2/28/2009 - vinocrat wrote: 99 Points
What a beauty! Perfect bordeaux drinking pleasure. Decanted for 2 hours. Deep ruby, velvet color up to the rim. Great Bordeaux fruit shooting out of the glass, cassis, roasted nuts, tobacco. On the palate Bordeaux at it's best is present: sexy mouthfeel , sweetness, black fruit, caramel, chocolate, pure and silky, extremely ripe and rounded tannins ending in a long aftertaste.
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2/12/2009 - Tao wrote: 99 Points
From half bottle, deep ruby in colour, the nose is just spectacular, I don't have exact words to precisely describe it!!! On the palate, silky smooth and very rich! Overall, very very impressive. Need to drink now if you had the half bottle!
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1/3/2009 - rnellans wrote: 95 Points
Gorgeous nose of cedar, lead pencil with a hint of bell pepper. Big in the mouth. Lush.. great finish. Still quite alive.
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12/25/2008 - paulst wrote: 93 Points
Deep leather and barnyard nose. Smooth fruit with light blackberry and cassis. Elegant. Long Finish. A bit flabby.
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12/21/2008 - tbabes wrote: flawed
This was not a perfect bottle; top shoulder fill. A murky garnet color, with some amber at the edge. Tired bouquet, with a touch of oxidation. Similar characterisitcs on the palate; this bottle was well past its peak. Glad I had the '90 L'Evangile as a backup!
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12/17/2008 - Rupert wrote: flawed
31 Vintages of Pichon Lalande 1928-2005; 12/16/2008-12/17/2008 (IOD, London): Horribly corked
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12/5/2008 - andrewstevenson.com wrote: 98 Points
Oo! Oo! Gorgeous nose. Fantastic, hedonistic black fruit. This is one of the youngest smelling 82s I've come across in recent years.
Mmmm.... this is lovely. Hugely drinkable and with lots of character. This is sublime, hedonistic, gorgeous, silky, easy drinking. If you wanted to be really critical, and with a wine this damn near perfect, that's in order, then I think you could say that it's opulence and deliciousness makes it not seem entirely classic claret. Where's that touch of austerity? Bloody marvellous wine.
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12/1/2008 - Jeff Leve wrote: 96 Points
This offered an explosive nose! Rich blackberry, black cherry, raspberry, truffles, cigar and herb notes. Big, powerful, concentrated, opulent and with great balance coupled with finesse.
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11/6/2008 - Goldstone wrote: 97 Points
White Truffle Dinner (Chez Patrick Sun Street, Hong Kong): Deep red, nearly transparent colour but with no bricking. A fantastic elegant and poised nose of multi-layered and changing elements of cassis, ripe plums and smoke from an old temple: a class or two above the impressive Lynch Bages 1982....elegance being the separator. Huuuge depth on the palate, which has loads of coffee, caramel, sweetness and intensity, with a touch of Turkish Delight and incense. Extremely well integrated and balanced. An incredible length and very big "in your head" sensations which roll on and on. This is a wine of kings.
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10/1/2008 - Jeff Leve wrote: 98 Points
The best bottles have delivered sublime tasting experiences. Luckily, this bottle delivered the goods. Ruby in color, the explosive nose of cassis, black fruit, olives, spice and truffle are a treat. But where this wine delivers the goods is on the palate. Lush, fat, sexy, opulent and flamboyant. Layer after layer of luscious juice with a silk laden finish lasting close to one minute! 82 Pichon Lalande is a contender for the most decadent Pauillac ever made! Well stored wines have another decade or two of evolution in their future.
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9/17/2008 - HIT wrote: 100 Points
Opened and let it breathe in the bottle for 2 hours. Soft but excellent nose dominated with dark fruit with but some tobacco and cedar. Dark ruby colour, very attractive. Very rich on the palate, full bodied but still light somehow, red and black fruit coming together in an amazing balance and very long finish. There was still a hint of tannins there, hopefully it has some years to go.
Clearly among the best wines I've had in my lifetime.
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9/10/2008 - Eric wrote: 100 Points
I have had good bottles of 82 Pichon and mindblowers. This was among the latter. From the moment the cork was popped and the wine was decanted this exuded fat layers of cassis, tobacco and roasted plum. What a mindblowingly sexy nose! The palate was even better, generous, sumptuous, exotic, quite endless and plush in fact. How does this wine manage to deliver such luxurious fruit on top of such a traditional Bordeaux frame? The tobacco and mineral and smoke and earth are all there, but what moves this to the next level is the ripe hedonism yet without the slightest trace of heaviness. Lithe, delicious, sexy and exotic, this remains my dream wine no matter how often I have it.
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9/1/2008 - Evil Homer wrote: 97 Points
Another fabulous effort from this gem. Decanted for 4 hours and made of the whole smell beautifully. Cranberry, graphite, lead pencil and barnyard..just amazing. Glad I have 2 left.
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8/10/2008 - dream wrote: 96 Points
From bottles purchased at Zachys auction that cost 6 times what I originally purchased a case for in the late 80's. Drunk outdoors with Lobel's ribeye's on Fire Island. Absolutely in perfect condition and drinking so beautifully now with incredible aged Bordeaux flavors of roasted nuts, tobacco and charred black fruit. Finishes so pure and silky like a thin velvet robe. This still has plenty of years to go but must be at its prime drinking window now although I said that 5 years ago. Very close to the unreal '82 Cheval Blanc I had recently.
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7/15/2008 - espia Likes this wine: 100 Points
The best wine I have ever tried. Opened my eyes to the crowning heights mature Bordeaux can achieve. Flawless, ethereal, awesome
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7/5/2008 - sdr Likes this wine: 90 Points
This wine seems to be stuck at its current state of evolution. Not that it's a bad place to be, but it's remarkable how each bottle over the last few years has been amazingly firm and tannic. I'm confident there is a core of ripe blackcurrent and black licorice in there somewhere, but I don't know when I'll get to see more than a hint. That said, for the tannin-tolerant, this is an outstanding classic Medoc that is just right to match full flavored food.
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6/5/2008 - pakabear wrote: 96 Points
No formal note. Tasted blind. This was just fantastic on the nose, still young with some bordeaux funk. The palate had amazing structure and was very youthful still. This wine I think got lost in the shuffle from some of the much younger wines that were represented, by itself this wine ROCKS.
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5/24/2008 - sdr Likes this wine: 92 Points
This was an interesting pairing with the '82 L'Evangile, with the former more lush and the Pauillac more structured as expected. This is clearly an outstanding wine but I'm not ready to jump on the 100 point bandwagon yet. Still, the excellent depth of blackcurrant fruit, the supple yet firm tannins and the perfect acidity are hard not to like. It seems there is still time for this one to grow and become more complex and thereby more interesting. Surely the best PL to drink now.
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5/24/2008 - dthompson wrote: 94 Points
Perhaps a bit past its prime but still a very elegant wine. I wanted to stretch the service of this expensive wine over the entire meal. Prosciuto & melon, filet migon, salad of greens and finally a cheese course. I was concerned that the wine would decline by the time we got to the cheese. Pulled the cork, replaced, decanted as we served the filet. Elegant is a good word. Almost perfectly balanced with noticeable smoke and still enough power. The fruit was subdued but pleasant. We lingered and enjoyed but the wine was declining quickly at the end. Great wine but don't give it too much decanting now. I bought it in 1985 for $15. Always my favorite. 3 more to go.
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4/28/2008 - DiveAlaska wrote: 98 Points
Best bottle of wine I've ever had. Not from a knee-buckling OMG standpoint, but WOW what a wine. Complexity layered upon complexity. Had to force myself to pull my nose out of the glass to actually drink the wine.........
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4/19/2008 - winefool wrote: 95 Points
Steven K. Dinner Party (Home): Far better than the last example I had of this. Showing just minor signs of age on the color, everything else here was still showing very well. Lots of classic Paullac character with cedar, briar, and graphite along with black fruit. Still lots of life left on the palate with a good measure of black fruit and even some youthful sweetness remaining. Well into its drinking window, this was still showing very well and one of the top wines of the night.
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4/19/2008 - theusualsuspect wrote: 98 Points
From a very well stored mag. Very aromatic. Almost a sweet soy sauce note on the nose with cassis violets and graphite/pencil. But it is on the palate where this really delivers. Huge mouth coating cassisy black current fruit in perfect balance which leads to a a rich complex and very long finish. Not a hint of the tobacco box, cedar notes of many high quality left bank Bordeaux (comparatively more merlot in Pichon perhaps the reason), and very much all the better for it in the sense of a great Bordeaux with an almost unique style or quality.
This wine may keep for a few more years, but it won't get better. At this point, certainly a top ten wine of the year.
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4/17/2008 - djl wrote: 95 Points
Had a magnum along with a magnum of 1998 Sassacaia for my 55th birthday. The Pichon had a great bouquet, velvet tannins and good fruit and attack as it hit your mouth, but faded quickly. Iy is time to drink whatever you have left. It is still a wonderful time, but like a beautiful older woman, she tires quickly. Drink up.
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3/1/2008 - Old Claret wrote: 100 Points
AN and SN drank this bottle at LaTour in Ridgewood NJ with Ed and Miki. Again, superb! Au Pointe! We agree with the pundits on this...
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2/23/2008 - buckeye76 wrote: 98 Points
AMAZINGLY COMPLEX WINE, BLACK AND RED FRUITS, COFFEE, LEATHER, CHOCOLATE IN THE NOSE AND FLAVOR. CLEARLY FULLY MATURE NOW AND SHOULD BE DRUNK IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF YEARS.
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1/27/2008 - 14Frimaire wrote:
Dinner at Café Panache (Ramsey, NJ): This is the only time I've ever had the pleasure, and it was a strange showing. It was perfectly correct, with no flaws that any of us could spot. It had a recognizable profile of lead pencil, black fruits, leather, and minerals, but, for a 1982 Bordeaux, from this real estate, there just wasn't much going on. It didn't seem souped up or anything. Just underperforming, given the circumstances.
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1/26/2008 - Mondial wrote:
The wine was like a pretty lady who is slightly past her prime. You can tell that she's still beautiful but you wish you met her in her best days. Wine was tight, some fruits, some minerals but somehow faded in taste. Easy to drink after decanting for 1 hour.
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1/14/2008 - Eric wrote: 96 Points
Popped on a Monday night "just for the heck of it" since I have a big shoulder surgery coming up in 2 days and needed some relief.
A tight bottle of this elixir. Opened up with dominant notes of mint and tobacco. Initially a bit lean on the palate, after an hour in the decanter this fleshed out gorgeously showing the fat, sexy, ripe personality this wine is so famous for. Seductively ripe yet with lovely mineral, cranberry and iron notes playing against the tobacco and cassis. A pinnacle expression of Bordeaux, so ripe and forward, yet so classic at the same time. This wine is always a special treat.
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1/9/2008 - Philippe_C wrote: 95 Points
Nose of green pepers, red berries, ripe red peperonis, olives and a hint of wood... others liked it better than me...
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1/8/2008 - barcud wrote: 100 Points
Huge depth and viscosity, no age at all, portlike. The most enchanting nose
of all things claret, smoke, leather, autumn smells spice...........and
then, an amazing mouthful of layers of fruit and spice and tannin and ALL in
balance. So long.
This was without doubt one of those lifetime wines
" just lay me down by still waters with a bottle of this, and my vinous life
would be completed." Obvious WOTN and worth RP's 100 pointer.,
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11/15/2007 - Jeff Leve wrote: 97 Points
Lush, opulent and sexy. Truffles, cigar box, cedar, sweet black fruit and spicy plums. Richly decadent with an opulent texture on the palate. The endless finish was seamless. The wine continued showing some improvement in the glass.
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11/4/2007 - dbkitc wrote: 94 Points
Light garnet, bricking at rim. Cassis fruit mixed with stems and some lovely gravelly depth. Quite youthful. Less impressive on the palate – a bit flat – but really this is just quibbling as the wine is flat out delicious. (94)
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10/20/2007 - DougLee wrote: 93 Points
Garnet purple. Really amazing nose, of lavender, cedar, cassis, plum, shoe polish. Lovely on the palate, with integrated black plum, black currants. Could not get past a certain green vegetal note, tho, which prevented this from being otherworldly.
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10/12/2007 - dthompson wrote: 97 Points
We had this at the Blue Bottle (BYOB) in Hopewell NJ. A close friend with a rather LARGE and extremely EXPENSIVE cellar asked me to bring something decent (for a change). So I brought 1982 Pichon. This is a wine I drink about every 2-3 years since I only have a bit left. The silence was deafening. We decided to drink the Pichon first and his very good 2000 Barolo second. That was the correct decision since the Pichon was expected to be lighter in body. We started the Pichon before we had any food when we were 100% sober. The Pichon was refined, fully mature and astonishing. It developed a hint of smoke after about 15 minutes. The 82 Pichon has consistently been the best wine I have ever had. Wow. The barolo was OK. It was a red wine as I recall. Alas, only 5 more Pichon to go.
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9/8/2007 - Evil Homer wrote: 96 Points
Wow...this was a special treat. Wonderful bouquet of dirt, leather and saddle. Typical Bordeaux nose. Velvety smooth, pefectly balanced with a nice lengthy finish. I am very glad to have one more in the cellar.
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7/20/2007 - sdr Likes this wine: 94 Points
South Florida does Pichon-Lalande: Not surprisingly, the star of the show at the Pichon vertical at Café Maxx. Sometimes this vintage of P-L shows surprisingly backward and stubborn, but this impeccably stored bottle (purchased on release by Bob) was flourishing wonderfully. Really huge, lush, fat and velvety. Simply gorgeous dark berry fruit that lingered on the palate for minutes. This is the wine that put (modern) Pichon on the map and while it's not perfect, it's irresistible.
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7/12/2007 - Nanda wrote: 98 Points
Introspective Retrospective Tasting at Ken's (Ken's Place): Hello-o-o-o-o, NURSE! Hugely effusive nose with complexity and full aromatics that show pure beautiful fruit, herbs and spice. Palate is medium bodied with rich, full, forward fruits. Even today, so young but showing complexity with tar and green herbs. Fruit is well balance by suave tannins and lifting acidity. Long, long full-flavored finish. Simply gorgeous.
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6/15/2007 - RiedelBeagle wrote: 95 Points
Complex, mature, seductive nose, and wonderful on the palate, with multifaceted smoke, leather, and subtle fruit. Not overwhelmingly long. Plenty of tannins, which I found to lack integration with the wine's flavors, and generally stand in the way of my enjoyment. To be sure, this is excellent Bordeaux, and it's still drinking very well. But its lack of integration keeps it out of the realm of the very best Bordeaux I've drunk. Of note, this wine completely fell apart two hours after opening, at which point it turned into dank, barely drinkable cooking wine.
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6/6/2007 - Jeff Leve wrote: 99 Points
This incredibly rich, lush, sexy, mouth filling Bordeaux wine is hedonism in a glass. Black fruit, earth and spices start off the aromatic fireworks. But, the deep, layer after layer of opulent ripe fruit that coats your mouth is for me, the true hallmark of this magnificent wine. The seamless finish last close to a minute. When this wine shows well, it’s one of the great treats from Bordeaux and this bottle was rocking
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5/21/2007 - trankin wrote: 93 Points
82 Bordeaux Tasting (Chanterelle): Serious plum and graphite on the nose. Luscious, core red fruit, with a bit of spice. A bit of green pepper, which detracts in my opinion. Otherwise great.
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4/29/2007 - linesider wrote: 99 Points
Dinner at Pam and Geoff's. Outstanding!
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4/20/2007 - psmith wrote:
Graduation wines (Columbus, OH): Much better than the last example of this I had. Forward, heavily Merlot-influenced nose of plum and tobacco. Lush and really well balanced. Well-integrated tannins could still soften some. Great stuff.
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4/6/2007 - gout wrote: 96 Points
Penultimate bottle from an en primeur purchased case of 12. Maybe I shall never again be able to afford such a fine wine. This wine has given much drinking pleasure over the last 5 - 10years and seems to get better with each bottle. Such a classy complex mature nose, silky smooth on the palate, heavenly flavours difficult to describe. Just sit back & enjoy it, and forget about the tasting notes !
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3/2/2007 - Jeff Leve wrote: 96 Points
Soy, graphite, olive tapanede, and cassis take over the controls of your senses. This bottle did not offer the usual parade of opulent textures. Slightly brawny for an 82 Pichon, this proves by 20 years of age, there are no great wines, just great bottles.
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2/18/2007 - Eric wrote: 100 Points
1982 Bordeaux with Leve at Spago (Los Angeles, CA): Bow down at the altar of wine!!!!! One taste and I was in heaven. OMFG, what a great, great, young bottle of 82 Pich! Soy, mint and even a hint of bacon on the nose. This is such an exotic wine with an incredibly sweet core of fruit, mindblowing wine, sweet and sour, stunning, dancing, vibrant, exotic. About as good an example as I have tasted in a dozen tries.
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2/7/2007 - futronic wrote: 93 Points
Medium-garnet colour. Aromas of graphite/pencil lead, earth, leather, dried red fruit. Medium-bodied, with nicely integrated tannins and a palate that shows replays from the nose. Moderate finish, ~35s. Drinking very well right now, but this bottle was a little lacking compared to my previous taste.
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2/3/2007 - sdr wrote: 95 Points
(Hugh's bottle, purchased on release.) This may be the most interesting '82 as well as one of the very best. Every bottle is a new adventure. This one showed a fabulous integration of luscious blackberry fruit with a firm, but not stiff, tannic structure. It was decanted for 3 hours, but over the course of a three hour dinner, it didn't even budge - not that it was anything but sheer pleasure in a very left bank Cabernet-dominated way. The puppy fat I remember so well from its early days has been shed completely and clearly there are many years of delight ahead. This is Exhibit A of why top Bordeaux from a fine vintage gains over decades of rest.
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1/30/2007 - CamWheeler wrote: 98 Points
Dinner with fresh truffles (Sydney, Australia): Such a seductive, voluptuous wine. A superb nose of smoky cedar, gravel, pencil shavings, cassis, tobacco and black olive. Every element of the palate is working together in seamless harmony. Elegant yet rich, with a velvet like texture as it slides along the palate into an breathtaking length finish. An absolute privilege to get to drink.
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12/31/2006 - Weinlakai wrote: 99 Points
Before drinking this I expected all and nothing. On the one hand side I thought something magical has to happen when I drink this... the price and all the ratings can't justify less. On the other hand side: this is just a bottle of wine. I drank some really nice (and expensive) wines in the past and the difference can't be that big. Well, what happened was – you probably already predicted – kind of both. Through this wine I think I've learned what most peoples picture of a perfect wine is: This wine is flawless. EVERY aspect of this wine is just right. Color, nose, acidity, tannins, mid-palate, finish etc. is just in a way that there is nothing to criticise. It is endlessly smooth and I finally realized what it means if a wine has a PERFECT balance. So, it's not the magic "bang", but a subtle supremacy. How superior this wine really is was shown by direct comparison to a 1989 Pichon Baron. Clearly a very good wine (I tasted it right after opening and again after 2 hours of decanting). BUT: the Lalande "polluted" my palate and – to state it mildly – KILLED the Baron. It was just an unforgettable experience, but still I save one point for even more to come (I'm a positive thinker).
I needed some time to think this experience over... that's why my tasting note comes over two weeks after the tasting.
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12/17/2006 - dream wrote: 98 Points
The color is still good. I can't explain how incredibly deep and pure the nose of this wine is. It is classic Bordeaux with notes of sweet tobacco, peanuts, and a perfume of the earth that is hard to describe. On the palate the wine is amazing with an ethereal lightness of texture which builds to an ultra-long, deeply concentrated finish of incredible complexity. This is the finest showing I've had of this wine and I finally see what Parker means. If there's anything in the world that goes better with a barbequed porterhouse than this wine, as Jennifer Simpson would say: "I wann it." Decanted for 1 hour before consumption.
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11/16/2006 - Eric wrote:
Tasting note from memory. This was a tight bottle. It started very slow and reticent, very unusual for this wine. And then slowly, slowly, slowly over a 90 minute period this this started to build and build and build until it was a strong but not outstanding example of this normally mindblowing wine. Very high 90's. Always pure sex in a bottle. I love the stuff!
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11/4/2006 - mattiasjansson wrote: 99 Points
Robert Parker 100-point dinner (Bellavino, Thousand Oaks, CA): I wish I had the words to describe this. Nearly perfect.
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10/27/2006 - Thilo wrote: 98 Points
Well...this is the real deal. Color is dark garnet with lightening at the rim, but no browning. Nose shows smooth dark fruit, cassis, a floral element, smoke, and leather. On the palate, there is a healthy dose of dark fruit (cassis) framed by tar, leather, and smoke. Very nice with well-integrated tannin. An absolute beauty that did not disappoint...thanks to Jim Stone for this rare opportunity.
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10/27/2006 - RiedelBeagle wrote: 93 Points
Drinking very well after an hour of decanting. Lots of life left in this one.
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10/13/2006 - Old Claret wrote:
Steve drank with Paul sometime last year - superb! Au pointe!
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10/13/2006 - Dave Dalluge wrote:
Pre-Harlan Warm-up at Brad England's House: Served beside the 82 Pichon Baron. This was a stunning bottle of wine. Big expressive nose of black fruit, mineral, and a slight green streak that was positively endearing. The texture of this is exquisite -- even surpassing the 85 Margaux. The complex taste includes a silky blend of black fruit, licorice, earth, and a slight green pepper. Balanced, fully integrated tannin, and a beautiful finish. This paired exceptionally well with the grilled steak.
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10/13/2006 - Siggy wrote:
Harlan Warm-Up Dinner (Brad's House, Minneapolis): Wow, a stunner of a bottle. Gorgeous, explosive red fruit, with silky tannins and incredible structure. Classic Pauillac cedar, pencil lead, spice box. A supple, amazing wine.
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9/12/2006 - beachnic wrote: 100 Points
This is kinda silly but I'm going back and remembering wines I've had as far back as 15-20 yrs ago. This was tasted in the early 90's..not exactly sure of the date and stood out as the best of the best 1st growth Bordeaux I've ever had. I bought almost every top rated 1982 Bordeaux during that time period and this is my favorite. Some were great but many were dissapointments... this wasn't. What stood out was the great nose it had followed by the great balance between the fruit and structure. Intoxicating, Deep sweet fruit but very elegant even in it's youth. I tried the 1982 Comtesse several times during that period and It's stayed with me till today. That's what I call a finish.
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9/10/2006 - parrot wrote: 98 Points
THIS WINE IS STUNNING. First try for me and my expectations was VERY HIGH. Huge wine with layers of fruit, very complex and it delivered tonight. Consumed with a delicious rack of lamb - perfect match!
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9/1/2006 - AndrewSGHall wrote:
(Lampreia, Seattle) Earthy mushrooms, spicey cigar and cedar on the nose. Just blew out of the glass from the get-go. Same soie texture as my previous, but more intense and more layers of olive, mint and a really mineral, gravelly core. Very yielding and indulgent with a nice power. Awesome wine. Thanks, Eric.
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9/1/2006 - Eric wrote: 100 Points
This was the 10th time I have had this wine, and this was a really, really good bottle; a pinnacle example. Black olive, tobacco and mineral all scream of Pauillac. There is also an exotic note of mint. The palate was lush, ripe, powerful and truly voluptuous. A truly unique and indulgent wine that nearly always delivers.
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7/26/2006 - sdr wrote:
Sadly, I am unable to score this wine, since it was served much too warm at Café l'Europe as the finale to our Pichon Lalande mini-vertical ('03, '00, '89, '86, '83, '82). I brought it undecanted since their wine service is exemplary and none of the other bottles were decanted ahead of time. Clearly, it was the best of the PLs from the eighties, although the '83 (also too warm) was not far behind. About all I could tell was that it was concentrated, well fruited, and probably in its prime.
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6/20/2006 - Jeff Leve wrote: 99 Points
The ruby color sported some bricking, but one whiff of this complex perfume showed how great this wine truly is. Cassis, figs, coffee, coca powder, hot stones, tobacco & herbs explode from the glass. The palate where this wine really struts its stuff. Seamless taste sensations of juicy, ripe plums and blackberry liqueur coat every nook and cranny of your palate with multiple layers of dense, lush, silky fruit. Shared with dad for Fathers day.
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6/19/2006 - Eric wrote:
Old Bordeaux and young Cults with Jeff Leve (Los Angeles, CA): Dominated by cedar at first and not showing as sultry and ripe as it usually does. With 30 minutes in the glass this did 'pop' with a nice blast of tobacco, cassis and flowery perfume. Not a surreal bottle but very strong as always.
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6/14/2006 - Alfalfa323 wrote: 99 Points
Tasted as the finale to a vertical tasting of the 1988, 1994, and 1997 vintages. The 1982 easily bested all three. The bottle was close to shoulder fill, but the cork was in perfect condition. This bottle had been loved all of it's life. Decanted for (2-3) hours. The bouquet still maintained the lovely sweet blackberry, tobacco, and vanilla, but aromas are more subtle than the younger wines. Lovely rich purple coloring with a touch of amber at the edges. Perfectly structured, unctuous texture, with a tranquilizing, beautiful, transcendent finish. The wine is fully mature and seems to request consumption sooner than later.
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6/7/2006 - mfkidd wrote: 98 Points
Full Disclosure: This is the first high end, fully mature Bordeaux I have ever had the pleasure to taste. Purchased at Crush in NYC the day before consumption. Consumed at Bice (52nd and Madison) the following day with family over dinner.
SMOOTH. This baby was smooth. Nothing harsh or tannic or bitter. Just sweetness down the goblet. Fruit, but nothing tremendously forward, just there. Berries with lead pencil (or is that my Bordeaux reading talking). You could really taste the terroir in this wine. Really sense the ground these grapes grew in.
Not a 100 as the finish was not as long and powerful as I would expect (perhaps unfairly) from a wine of this magnitude and because the fruit, while delightful, was not the explosion I expected (perhaps unfairly).
Overall, sublime and truly a wine at peace with itself. Drink now!
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6/5/2006 - gorm wrote: flawed
The color is a dark garnet, looks young and considering the age very promising. Sniffed right after opening. The nose is somewhat restrained with a few hints of blackcurrant and nothing else. I immediately feel a little puzzled - is that it? The taste is just as limited - some tannins are present, but the taste is very limited, even a bit watery and the aftertaste very short. Before making a premature judgement I decided to let it rest a bit in the decanter. After an hour it seems to be almost the same. I cannot say that something is obviously wrong, it behaves and tastes like a somewhat typical cheap Bordeaux with a light to medium body, tannins and hints of blackcurrant. In a few flashes it seems to hint at something else, but it's always gone before I can catch it... (and its probably just a result of my hopeful imagination...) I have never tasted this wine before and have no frame of reference, but I am fairly convinced that this is not what RP rated 100 points. I cannot recognize a single line from his description. Most likely its an off bottle, its over the top or maybe it has leaked (the cork was fragile and looked soaked). Rating: n/a.
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5/15/2006 - noppakit s. wrote: 100 Points
This is what I'm waiting for. " The Wine of the Legend "
Drink along side by side with Latour 1966...
This wine is perfect in everything but shouldn't drink with the great Latour 1966.
I won't say in detail because I can't remember it much. Latour 1966 takes my breathe away...
My word : If 1982 Pichon Lalande get 100/100, 1966 Latour should get 105-110/100
Recomended : Better drink this wine with 2nd Growth then you'll happy with it very much.
Drink now - 2025............ I'm looking forward to compare it again and again, once with Latour 1970...........
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5/9/2006 - dk_lulu wrote: 88 Points
Fill just into the neck. There was some dried wine/mold on the top of the cork, but somehow the capsule spun? Cork was saturated throughout, but the long cork came out easily in one piece. Audouzed for 2 hours. Nose of chocolate, coffee, smoked bloodly meats, green pepper, ripe black/red fruit. Taste of ripe black/red fruit, partially resolved tannons, tar, earth. Good balance. Extended delineated, minerally finish. Seemed to be lacking fruit in the quality and quantity expected, and a seeming absence of mid-palate structural elements. Almost monolithic - disappointing.
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4/29/2006 - G SQUARED wrote: 96 Points
Cellar Party for Bayfront Med Center Foundation. I love this wine! Always close to perfect depending on the particular bottle. Black fruits playing bass with the tannins on strings, all balanced out by tastes of leather, tobacco, spice and milk chocolate. Gorgeous!
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4/27/2006 - BradE wrote:
Very nice.
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4/14/2006 - jshufelt wrote: 97 Points
Consumed with Lobel's filets and potatoes liberally doused with butter and sea salt. The bottle's fill was just above the shoulder, three-quarters of an inch away from the bottom of the cork. The capsule spun easily. Upon removal of the cork, I had a moment of panic, as the cork was cracked and deeply stained to within a quarter-inch of the top. Please don't be oxidized, oh please, please, please...
In the glass: a deep plum color, gradually fading through orange and then orange-amber at the rim, with a slight viscosity in the glass when swirling. The nose was slightly muted for the first 20 minutes, but came fully alive after that, with all of the classic Pauillac hallmarks singing in harmony: cedar, tobacco, mint. What an exotic yet enticing aroma. I found myself lingering with my nose in the glass.
On the palate: a core of saturated dark deep fruit, predominantly cassis, with a slight touch of sweetness providing balance with the tannins, and even slighter notes of soy and black olive adding complexity. The texture of this wine is superlative, a silky glycerin mouthfeel that deposits a lasting finish. One of the great pleasures of a wine of this caliber is the ability to lick your teeth and voila! The wine is back.
Shared with my wife, as close to an ideal lunch as I could imagine, and a solid, stirring reminder of the reasons I got into wine in the first place. If you have a bottle, open it and celebrate, simply because you can.
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3/25/2006 - agbailey wrote: 100 Points
The 82 lived up to its billing and was absolutely spectacular. Rich dark fruits, well structured tanins and a very long finish. This wine got better the more it breathed. The person who brought it said it was the best bottle from his case that he has had yet. Truly a great wine.
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1/22/2006 - jmoore431 wrote: 100 Points
Beautiful deep color with only slightest edge of transparency at rim; juicy, almost pruney ripeness of fruit. Incredible breadth of flavors truly at prime of life; impeccably balanced. Goes on for a minute or more. Classic. Privelege to taste this!
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1/21/2006 - sdr Likes this wine: 94 Points
While clearly a superb wine, I did not get quite the 100 point thrill that Arlette did. Emphatically dark in color, like a new release. It's a powerhouse that lives on the intensity of its black and blue fruit. A strong backbone of very ripe tannin gives it a potent structure, but the intensity of the ripe, but not over-ripe, fruit in the middle buffers it perfectly. This wine seemed like a short-lived pleasant fruit bomb in its youth, then became too hard and now it's emerging from its tannic armor to begin its long plateau of (near) perfection.
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1/20/2006 - jrufusj wrote:
61/82 Bordeaux Dinner (Luxor in Marunouchi): Lighter than the young Latour – similar to the ’61 Latour in color, though a little more solid. A greenish stem note begins the nose – not green like CF ivy leaves or bell pepper, but sappy young green – not an unpleasant flaw but not exactly typical. This does fade away and leaves solid cedar and cassis notes with strong and distinct highlights of duck blood and sweet wild berry syrup, plus a little low volume truffly earth. There is green on the palate as well, but again not hard or tart or offensively herbaceous. The green shows more as cheek coating tannins that manage to be a bit wild and rough but lovely and lush in texture at the same time. Until a late night revisit and a rereading of my notes, my summary was “in good shape, almost true to type, but somehow a little odd and not my favorite wine, even as a Loire CF fan”. There was never any question that this is a stunning and complex wine, just one of how much I personally liked it. After a late night last taste combined with a romantic rereading of my notes, the odd edges are really growing on me. Would love to taste again in a smaller cohort where I can really spend an evening with it.
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1/6/2006 - DougLee wrote:
High shoulder fill. Cork stained nearly to the top. Nose laden with cedar, cassis, red fruits, blueberry. Aerated for two hours, it was full of red fruit and cassis. The finish, however, had an astringent quality which did not resolve even after 3 hours. I suspect a cooked specimen.
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12/5/2005 - OneLastSyrah wrote:
'82s at Lola: Saturated and deeply colored but still slightly translucent at the rim. Bottle sweet hickory nose. Sweet lovely. Tangy, concentrated palate. Pretty good. 100pts?
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12/2/2005 - phenricsson wrote: 98 Points
Great, mature Bordeaux. Tastes more like a good 59. Surprisingly ready to drink but VERY enjoyable. Huge nose, great supple mouthfeel with no weak spots at all. Much more mature than the Certan de May we had with it. Long, delicious aftertaste. Can’t wait to open the next one.
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9/17/2005 - Burgundy Al wrote: 92 Points
HDH Pre-Auction Tasting (Chicago Athletic Club): Wine tasting. Showing more advanced age than I expected. Mostly red fruit on nose, then red and black on palate. Some smoked meat herbs on palate. Good in every way, but not particularly deep or nuanced for me today. Also most likely not getting any better.
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9/17/2005 - winefool wrote: 93 Points
HDH Pre-auction tasting (Chicago Athletic Club): Full dark red color. Forward aroma of red fruit and dill. Nice rich blanced fruit on the palate.
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6/24/2005 - Eric wrote: 98 Points
This was one of the more brooding examples of this wine I have ever tasted. Some initial barnyard notes blow off to reveal a black, brooding nose redolent of tobacco and mineral. There is a stunning richness to the wine, but the finish starts out tight and gravel-laden. However, with a nice ribeye and an hour of air, this starts to explode from the glass. Mint, hints of coffee, and loads of tobacco pour forth. The loaded and plush palate is screams of black cherry and a shocking level of minerality. Silky and enveloping, this is an utterly singular wine that rarely disappoints. And with time the finish stretches out beautifully. I wonder if maybe this bottle saw some heat at some point, as it just never showed the level of overt fruit that I have seen it deliver in the past. Still, it is a gorgeous, textbook example of Pauillac at its best.
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5/21/2005 - futronic wrote: 97 Points
Ruddy burgundy colour. Aromas of grilled meat, graphite, pencil shavings, dried herbs, cedar, blackcurrant, leather, tobacco. Full-bodied, seamless wine, with graphite, black fruit, leather, cedar, and tobacco notes on the palate. A little tannin comes through on the 40-45s finish that shows black fruit and cedar.
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4/21/2005 - MRichman wrote:
Pichon Baron vs Pichon Lalande (Triomphe Restaurant in NYC): Broad-beautiful herbs with bright, deep, strong fruit. Smooth. Fantastic.
A/A+
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4/21/2005 - JeffO wrote: 100 Points
A perfect magnum in perfect condition filled with perfect wine. Dinner at home with the lads from Ireland. Turns out you can ask a question like "Who's the greatest footballer in the world--or all time" and they'll talk all night long (while the host sips his way thru the magnum!).
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4/21/2005 - jamiekutch wrote: 100 Points
TN: OFFline: Pichon Baron VS. Pichon Lalande 1982, 1986, 1989, 1990, 1995, 1996, 2000 (NYC): My second time with this wine. Last time I scored this a 98, and this time it deserves the coveted perfect score. Just simply ready for action with delicious jammy perfect aromatics and a KILLER balances mouth, palate, feel. This wine is built for perfectionists. It's all there guys - if you haven't tried it, you have to get it. Fortunately this bottle was sourced from a cellar that was housing the wine @ 55 degrees since release.
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3/27/2005 - mariow wrote: 89 Points
robust purpure; decent nose, some citrus and flowers; very full and round on the pallate; over all very pleasureable but not outstanding
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2/26/2005 - AndrewSGHall wrote:
Outstanding. Soft, but full nose with cigar box, earth and fruit. Incredible soie on the palate. Long finish with currants, spice and rich fruit. Complex and delicious. Brought to Bones, Atlanta and a perfect match with steaks.
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2/19/2005 - DougLee wrote: 94 Points
Bought as a library wine about two months ago. Low-shoulder fill. Cork saturated with red all the way up to the top. Nose: lots of tobacco, cedar, pencil lead, and black fruit which yielded to more pure fruit as the evening progressed. After about 90 minutes, there was all this pure red fruit just roaring on the palate, along with a bit of peppery, spicy quality on the long finish. Tannins smoothed-out. I have no idea if this was a typical bottle (I think not in view of the low fill and red cork), but there was a lot going on.
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2/11/2005 - Eric wrote: 99 Points
Pre-Parker warmup dinner at Citronelle (Washington DC): This wine always speaks to me! The nose is screaming with black fruit and tobacco, spicy and cedary, dark and brooding. The palate is sweet, almost insanely ripe. Compared to other bottles I have opened this is very, VERY young!
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1/29/2005 - sdr Likes this wine: 93 Points
Impossible to determine from the main or strip labels, the cork reveals that this bottle was re-corked at the Chateau in 1993. Why? I purchased it from WineBid a few years ago. It certainly looked to be in fine condition, with a mid neck level and clean label as expected. The color was deep ruby with a bit of orange at the rim. I decanted this three hours in advance. Lovely classical Medoc smell of cedar, dark berry and spice. Quite firm on the attack, more from juicy acidity than tannins. As the wine continued to develop in the glass, it become less fragrant and even more structured. A fine match for the pancetta-wrapped tendeloin of veal at Mark's Las Olas, but far from the easy fruity sipper this wine was in its youth.
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1/10/2005 - Jeff Leve wrote: 98 Points
Screaming notes of tobacco, coffee, cedar, black fruit, Asian spices and steel. This bottle was firing on all cylinders. Thick, lush, decadent, ripe fruit, filled every nook and cranny of your palate. Very seamless and elegant. Fully mature, but there is probably no rush to consume it. This is still a wow wine. For me, this style of wine is the quintessential Bordeaux marrying power with elegance. A real treat to taste.
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10/16/2004 - Burgundy Al wrote: 93 Points
ERI Pre-Auction Wine Tasting (San Francisco CA): Wine tasting. Slightly musty to start, this should have been opened earlier and given more air. Concentrated black fruit emerged with some time, aeration and coaxing. Smoky black currant and black cherry flavors with big structural support. Long finish.
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10/16/2004 - Eric wrote: 100 Points
'A Taste for Life' hosted by WineCommune (San Francisco, CA): Smoky and earthy with deep notes of cassis, charcoal, tobacco and roasted espresso coming through. Wow, there is so much ripe cassis still on display in this lavish wine! On the palate this is like a silk blanket, just unreal texturally. The finish screams of tobacco with a very dark personality, very reminiscent of a bottle I enjoyed on my birthday 11/8/2003. This wine and this particular bottle deliver everything I want in a Bordeaux.
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10/15/2004 - Jeff W wrote:
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Deep purple. This is drop dead delicious. Dessicated fruit lifted by the acidity. It's absolutely lovely. Superlative.
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10/15/2004 - Eric wrote: 97 Points
Dinner at Rubicon and a surreal pre-tasting (San Francisco, CA): F'ing A, this has a ripe, ripe nose with loads of bursting cassis and hints of olive and dill. Oh wow, the palate on this is just so stunning! The palate on this shows more structure than I recall with loads of life.
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7/27/2004 - jamiekutch wrote: 98 Points
WOW look at that dark, dark fruit. This is really a 82 - that dark still? My 1982 Bordeaux Hymen has been broken .. dark plum color, black fruit nose. silky soft in the palate, rounded, tannins still evident on the finish - this puppy has many many years ahead of it.. Yummy. What a treat.
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7/12/2004 - Jeff Leve wrote: 98 Points
The color was closer to ruby than dark red with slight lightening around the edges. The texture reminded me of dense, voluptuous, liquid silk. This was absolutely seamless! The aromatics showcased cassias, plums, smoke and a cornucopia of black & red fruits with a cedary component. This was a stellar bottle offering as much pleasure as you can get from a wine!
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4/13/2004 - JeffJo wrote: 99 Points
Wow, this is everything I want in a great Bordeaux! Amazing mature nose of tobacco, shoe leather, pencil lead and spice box. Refined mouthfeel with rich wide fruit and an incredible finish. An hour after opening the mid palette just exploded and behaved like a wine 15 years younger. Good to the last drop.
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2/28/2004 - Eric wrote: 100 Points
MI Wine Club Ultracollectible Dinner (Seattle, WA, USA): This was my bottle (a magnum), and I am now 4 for 4 with this wine. This wine consistently takes me to my "happy place." This shows a stunningly youthful nose of tobacco, minerals and black fruit. The cassis and purity on the attack is just mindblowing. This is clearly the most youthful of the four bottles of this I have tasted. This wine is utterly seamless, just so smooth and powerful from entry all the way through the 30 second finish. Served with a timbale of wild grains, sauteed leeks and grilled portabello mushroom.
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2/1/2004 - sdr wrote:
Chicago Wine Company, purchased on release. Totally different. Dark and tight. Very tannic, even inky. Refuses to open up even after 3 hours in the glass. Puzzling. No score.
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12/12/2003 - Jason wrote: 94 Points
This did not knock me out like the last time I had it. Still a great wine. Wonderful nose that made me weak in the knees (I really wrote that in my tasting book.) Much better nose than palate. It is thick and lush but does not have enough depth.
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12/12/2003 - Eric wrote: 100 Points
Seattle Tasting Group 'End of Year Dinner' (Sammamish, WA, USA): Oh let me die now if it will happen any time soon! This was served alongside 1982 Leoville Las Cases and 1983 Margaux, the most glorious three wines I have ever had together and 299 points of pleasure. The aromatics on this were more expressive than my last bottle with menthol and some cool elements ultimately giving way to a textbook nose of tobacco and cigar box. The palate was glorious, utterly seamless, among the most perfectly silky wines I have ever enjoyed. More incredible tobacco and a black edge fill your mouth. Long, silky, and caressing. Remarkable! This is the third time I have had this wine in three months, what a treat! (Group average 96.44)
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11/23/2003 - JeffO wrote: 100 Points
Our "house wine" the past several years. :-) Tasted close to 20 times since 1999, 3 times from magnum, it has never failed to impress (well actually there was 1 bottle that was corked). I wondered with the first few bottles if it would last, as it seemed to be at its height and fully fully mature, but it seems to be settling into an easy plateau that I hope will last for some time. It's soft going in, but has plenty of structure, well-integrated tannins and fruit, a nose that blooms and blooms, and a finish that lingers so you slow down and sip and swirl and sniff and make that stuff last all night long.
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11/8/2003 - Eric wrote: 100 Points
On turning 34... (Seattle, WA, USA): Is scoring this known 100-pointer as 100 points self serving? Probably! However, the fact remains that this wine did things that I have never before witnessed from a wine. At first I thought that this might be a tired bottle, but then it exploded with a sweet nose that was very high-toned, with a not quite minty character. With time some more brooding smells of black licorice come forward. On the palate, this wine puts a new meaning on the word seamless, as the texture, balance, intensity and consistency from start to finish are unlike anything that I have ever encountered before! This is definitely among the silkiest wines I have ever tasted with a long, black, tobacco driven finish. All I can say is WOW!
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11/1/2003 - sdr Likes this wine: 90 Points
Chicago Wine Company, purchased on release. Medium color. Lovely fragrance of Spring flowers and hint of cedar. Very pretty wine of medium intensity. Smooth. Mature. Finishes abruptly though. Pleasant but not profound. Bottle variation strikes again.
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10/3/2003 - Joe Belmaati wrote: 98 Points
Very dark red in the glass with nearly opaque core. Very intense bouquet on notes of cucumber, fresh air and tree bark. This may sound bizarre, but I loved the inter play between those scents. With air an unmistakeable coffe notes appeared. I’m a sucker for wines that smell like coffee or tobacco, so this was just my style. The flavours were dense, sweet and chocolate truffle like, smooth velvety and confident in delivery. There’s so much stuffing and ripe fruit here, and the finish lasts forever. Full of finesse in spite of its strong nature. Simply brilliant.
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9/19/2003 - Jason wrote: 98 Points
Massive, youthful nose of charcoal and red fruit. Vibrant palate of charred, sweet, sweet black fruit. Perfect balance. An amazing wine. Decades of life ahead of it.
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9/19/2003 - Eric wrote: 99 Points
A heavenly night of Pichon!!! (Seattle, WA, USA): Served from magnum, what an unreal treat. JeffO referred to this as his "house wine" (he really meant his "go-to wine") and suffered friendly ribbing for the rest of the evening, but of course we were all glad he brought this incredible bottle. I was blown away by how young this was drinking. It was an absolute BABY! My notes on descriptors are quite thin, as at this point I was just drinking and enjoying the 1982 and the 1970. The one element of the nose that surprised me quite a bit was an amazing element of mint. I have never seen that in Bordeaux before, is that normal?!? On the palate this was powerful with a strong edge of licorice, but oh the texture! This is seamless, pure, and endless. I have never had anything like this. It was initially so primary, but in the glass it kept opening and opening and opening. There was so much going on with this. Wow!
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7/12/2003 - La Cave d'Argent wrote: 96 Points
Tasted single-blind at 1982 horizontal Bordeaux dinner at El Bizcocho. Bottle provided by Rob Norberg. Bright disc. Medium-to-deep garnet robe with amber rim. Clean nose, literally exploding in the glass upon being poured (which was one hour after decanting). The nose dramatically stood out from the other wines in the same flight. A magnificent bouquet of cassis, dark plum, pencil shavings, Provencal herbs, underbrush, tobacco and cardamom persisted on this wine throughout the evening (more than four hours). Medium-bodied on the palate, with low acidity, similar complex flavors as for the nose and "lurking" tannins which allow a supple mouth texture. Long, smooth finish. Very nice with the roasted duck (with wild mushroom fricassee, potato gnocchi and crouton "farce a gratin" in salmis sauce).
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5/31/2003 - Joe Belmaati wrote: 95 Points
Dark red in the glass. 1 on the nose. Magnificent scents of dill, tea, and cigar box. Strong and port-like. Wonderful structure and definition. Ripe, concentrated and dense. This finish could have been a touch longer. But greatness is certainly present here.
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12/1/2002 - sdr Likes this wine: 97 Points
Andy’s bottle. Medium color. A bona fide grand slam home run. Gorgeous blast of black cherry and vanilla. Fabulously sweet and rich. Fully mature. Extravagant and voluptuous. Nothing subtle. The Pomerol of Pauillac.
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10/16/2002 - mnh wrote:
at aspen: deep brick. Lovely nose with ripe fruit, wood elements, eucalyptus. Very ripe, merlot dominating, great mid palate and soft tannins. Still has great potential.
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4/28/2002 - MikeATL Does not like this wine: 88 Points
1982 Bordeaux retrospective (Capital Grille, Buckhead): This wine probably revealed more differences between my palate and the rest of the groups’ than any other that night. Intensely sweet and rich, but irritatingly monolithic, I’ve never been a huge fan of the 1982 Pichon-Lalande and this bottle did nothing to change my mind. I’ve probably had this 15 times since release, and it has always been wide open and pleasant, but, except for a hint of leather, nothing distinguishes this wine from dozens of other sweet, moderately balanced, monolithic wines around the world.
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3/22/2002 - bestdamncab Likes this wine: 93 Points
1982 Chateau Pichon Lalande, Chateau Leoville Las Cases, Chateau La Conseillante, Chateau La Mission Haut Brion (Walnut Creek, Ca.): Lots of cigar and cedar and touch of green bell pepper, got better over the evening, taste both bright acid and green bell pepper on the finish, medium/long finish. My #3 of 4.
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12/25/2001 - mnh wrote:
Medium ruby with brick edge. Soaring ripe fruit nose with bottle nuances. Very ripe, round, delicious; but I think it was better in the past.
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11/1/2001 - bestdamncab Likes this wine: 94 Points
Lovely, rich tobacco with hints of green bell pepper on the nose, the nose improved as the tasting went on, very, very rich fruit, smooth, elegant, lovely mouthfeel, lovely taste, long, long finish with lots of time. My #2 of 5.
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9/1/2001 - sdr Likes this wine: 93 Points
Andy’s bottle, purchased on release. Dark and backward. Improved as it opened over two hours. More depth than the ‘89 drunk alongside it. Not flamboyant at all. Some raisin elements. Very, very fine. Now, at age 19, I am more confident of its future.
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7/1/2001 - sdr Likes this wine: 90 Points
Purchased on release. Amazingly backward. Closed and youthful. Dumb, even. Primary flavors. Very powerful. Excellent grip and length.
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4/1/2001 - sdr Likes this wine: 96 Points
Jim’s magnum. The star of the 1982 Super Second tasting, easily besting the Léoville-Las-Cases. Very full color. Ripe to over-ripe, bordering on prune. Yet somehow very fresh on the palate. A huge wine for Pichon-Lalande. Massive fruit. K picked it as her #1 too. A great eighty-two.
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6/1/2000 - Charlie Carnes wrote: 99 Points
WOW! This is a silky smooth baby. Smells like currant, leather,bubble gum, meat, pencil, stewed red and black fruit. Mouth full of fruit. Perfect balance. Truely one of the best wines I have ever had.
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2/1/2000 - sdr Likes this wine: 93 Points
Chicago Wine Company, purchased on release. A great bottle this time and still very young. Huge. Secondary phase of development. Great balance. Room to grow.
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12/31/1999 - beachbum wrote: 99 Points
Wow, what a wine, my Y2K bottle, and it was stunningly pure, seamless and intense.
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5/1/1999 - mariow wrote: 84 Points
mediocre
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4/1/1999 - sdr Likes this wine: 88 Points
Hugh’s bottle, served blind. Gorgeous bouquet of violets and roses which persisted very well. On the palate, though, very light and short. No tannin. Doesn’t look good for further development.
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3/28/1998 - La Cave d'Argent wrote: 92 Points
Tasted at blind Pichon-Lalande vertical at the Belgian Lion, organized by Mike Stewart. My impression of this wine is the same as 8/9/96 and 12/7/96. Specifically, it is very soft and very pleasant (very "feminine"). Parker dotes over this wine more than it deserves. Although this is a great wine, to my palate it is not of the calibre of the Latour, Mouton or even the Montrose.
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3/1/1998 - sdr Likes this wine: 90 Points
Richard’s bottle. Big and brooding. After 2 hours, it opened somewhat and exhibited a very enticing perfume arose. Long.
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6/1/1997 - mnh wrote:
Aspen: Outstanding now. Always shines against the first growth 82’s
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3/1/1997 - sdr Likes this wine: 88 Points
Great Wine Seminar, another bottle. Beginning to lighten at the rim. Very young but at the same time tertiary aromas starting to develop. Extra nuances. Intense. Fine but definitely not great. There seems to be a lot of bottle variation with this wine.
Clive Coates: “ripe acidity, will last, tannins mellow, lush, rich and seductive”
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3/1/1997 - sdr Likes this wine: 92 Points
Great Wine Seminar. Medium color, darker than the ‘83. Big, exotic, sexy, plummy bouquet. Lots of vanillin oak. Fine mid palate. Plenty of wine here. Surprisingly, cut off by high tannins. Good future, needs 5 more years. And yet, today at least, not as classically beautiful as the eighty-six.
Clive Coates: “magnificent, marvelously rich, tannins ripe and sophisticated, will keep 30-40 years”
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12/7/1996 - La Cave d'Argent wrote: 92 Points
Tasted at home dinner with Keith Turner following computer setup. Not decanted. Similar impresstion as 8/9/96.
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8/9/1996 - La Cave d'Argent wrote: 92 Points
Color difficult to assess due to inadequate lighting. Moderate sediment. Very pleasant nose of ripe fruit, leather and spice. Tannins have all melted away. Pleasant palate of same flavors with long, soft finish. Lovely now, but I question how much longer this wine will last (low tannin and acidity).
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2/1/1996 - sdr Likes this wine: 95 Points
The undisputed star of the Pichon vertical. Opulent, sweet and oaky. Ostentatious. Big for Pichon-Lalande but not top heavy. Bursting with that specially fruit of this vintage. Finishes surprisingly short though.
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2/1/1996 - mnh wrote:
Great perfume, perfect balance,young.
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5/1/1995 - sdr Likes this wine: 97 Points
Very mature color. Spectacular opulent bouquet. Lots of cinnamon. Incredibly smooth. Sweet and soft but not wimpy. Long fragrant aftertaste. A superstar but probably will flame out soon.
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2/18/1995 - Marc wrote: 96 Points
With B, L, D, L and J at my wineo meal with a lamb on vege gallete. Excellent wine. Medium bodied, quite smokey and earthy. Excellent persistence of flavour - nice texture and restrained power. Very drinkable and complex. Not completely blown away due to being too busy with the meal -v.g. meal - but not perfect die to the detriment of the wine. Try a plain steak or a rack of lamb next.
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11/19/1994 - bestdamncab Likes this wine: 95 Points
THANKSGIVING DINNER 6 Chateau yQUEM AND 5 1982 Bordeaux (Walnut Creek, Ca.): Not just rich but delicious, hints of cherries, tobacco, and cedar.
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8/9/1994 - VDLT Wine Likes this wine:
In a few words: magisterial, complex, very long, a mouthful, multi-dimensional. Grand Vin!
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4/1/1993 - sdr Likes this wine: 89 Points
Not as spectacular as the last bottle. Less open, less forward, less fruity. Seems 3-4 years from maturity. Lots of class though and good future.
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1/1/1993 - sdr Likes this wine: 98 Points
Simply stunning. Can it be mature already? “Hedonistic,” as Parker says. Soft, warm, inviting. Complex aromas and flavors of the grape. Seems dominated by the Merlot. Not a blockbuster. But really elegant and complete. A delight to drink now but how long can it last?
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11/1/1992 - Marc wrote: 97 Points
Dumb at first and quite savory and smokey. With air the fabulous fruit texture, opulence and complexity come forth. Wine doesn't get much better than this! Needs a lot of air. Outrageously long elegant finish. Very low acid yet a wine that will last for years. (at David's 30th with Pascale and Bridgette)
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3/25/1992 - bestdamncab Likes this wine: 85 Points
1982 BORDEAUX (Walnut Creek, Ca.): Lots of barnyard and sweat sox on the nose, hints of sweet cedar, coffee, medicine, bark and wood on the nose, lots of soft acid, needed 2 hours to fully open, at peak. My #6 and Group#4.
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11/14/1991 - bestdamncab Likes this wine: 86 Points
9 Bordeaux 1981, 1982, 1983 Pichon Lalande, La Lagune, Gruaud Larose. Showed too much green pepper on the nose for me, lots of cedar and fruit in the well balanced mouthful of wine, rich, elegant aftertaste, needs 4 years to peak, My 6th place, Group #1.
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8/7/1991 - bestdamncab Likes this wine: 93 Points
1982 BORDEAUX (Lafayette, Ca.): Nice red color in the glass with hints of brick, lots of coffee and fruit on the nose, green pepper and coffee and great cab fruit on the palate, very rich, almost elegant, nice.
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3/1/1991 - sdr Likes this wine: 94 Points
Great Wine Seminar. Dark plummy nose with a hint of licorice and prune - intriguing hot vintage aromas. Wonderful smooth texture already. Long finish. Exciting future.
Robert Parker: “a blockbuster”
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4/25/1990 - bestdamncab Likes this wine: 89 Points
Chateau Pichon Lalande 8 Vintages (Lafayette, Ca.): Tasting of 7 Chateau Pichon Lalande. Hint of orange color and sediment in the glass, cedar and leather are prevalent with a fruity cabernet nose that has hints of asparagus and big fruit on the mouth that has reached its peak, so well balanced that it will easily go 5 to 7 years, great finish and aftertaste. Group #1 and My #2.
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