I got a pretty good deal on a pristine case (OWC, C&E import, fills into neck) of this at an auction last year and have been bombing through the bottles because, why not, it's in a great place. Tobacco, spice and hints of graphite and leather over the dark cherry and currant fruit. It still has a vein of tannin keeping things lively. Good now and I don't think it'll dry out or anything. Probably will drink well for another decade or two.
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River School Auction Tasting (Washington DC): Loved by everyone, classic Margaux spice and litheness, and better than it had been touted. Third in the flight after the 83 Mayacamas and the 86 Gruaud, but only by a touch.
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2/2/2024 - vulgar little monkey wrote: 93 Points
I got a pretty good deal on a pristine case (OWC, C&E import, fills into neck) of this at an auction last year and have been bombing through the bottles because, why not, it's in a great place. Tobacco, spice and hints of graphite and leather over the dark cherry and currant fruit. It still has a vein of tannin keeping things lively. Good now and I don't think it'll dry out or anything. Probably will drink well for another decade or two.
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12/29/2023 - mimik Likes this wine: 95 Points
At a perfectly mature drinking spot. Wow
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12/9/2023 - vulgar little monkey wrote: flawed
Corked
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8/19/2023 - Machine1 wrote: 95 Points
Superb; classic textbook mature Bordeaux.
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5/8/2023 - doctornoah Likes this wine: 94 Points
River School Auction Tasting (Washington DC): Loved by everyone, classic Margaux spice and litheness, and better than it had been touted. Third in the flight after the 83 Mayacamas and the 86 Gruaud, but only by a touch.
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