1982 Château Palmer

Community Tasting Notes (163) Avg Score: 91.9 points

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  4/10/2024 - Simba-wine Likes this wine: 98 Points

  Onto @Alastair ‘s first blind wine. 🙏🙏🙏
  
  Knew it was 1982, so right into Margaux!
  
  Debate, Chateau Margaux or Palmer. I was right onto Palmer and stuck with it🤗 @Riaan was onto CM.
  
  The wine is so Burgundian it is fine, ripe and good length. Didn’t have the CM length for me. Absolutely on apex now and you could see with air that it lost a little freshness.
  
  I would not wait on this and rather drink up.
  
  98p

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  11/25/2023 - Wineallover Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Short notes. Drinking beautifully. Fully integrated top notch Bordeaux as you would expect them to be. Life is full of surprises: 1983 is supposed to be a better year for Margaux so i was not expecting this Palmer to be that strong (and was disappointed by a Margaux 1983 a couple of years back), so overall a good surprise. Evolved quite quickly so would not recommend to decant.

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  10/28/2023 - Juliansi Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Sometimes when one meets their wine hero.. its as special as one expects it to be.
  
  In this case, this Palmer 1982 was not only beautiful and memorable, but it kept evolving over the night. Ripe blackberries and cassis, with sweetness which keeps developing over the night.
  
  Incredibly the acidity (Medium+) kept this so lively. Such staying power.. despite this being a wine of over 40 years. After 4 hours of air in our glasses and in the bottle, this Palmer 82 gained better density and more coffee aromatics too.
  
  Château Palmer is actually a 3rd growth, but in some vintages it would clearly give the 1st Growths a run for their money. In this 1982 vintage.. Circa 140,000 bottles were produced. 47% Cab, 47% Merlot, 6% Petit Verdot
  
  It seems that other than Chateau Margaux, the 1982 Palmer is the strongest wine from what was the weakest appellation of the vintage, Margaux.
  
  At this point in Palmer's history, the estate was being run by Peter Sichel, and was under the ownership of, as today, the Sichel and Mahler-Besse families.
  
  Regarding this legendary 1982 vintage.. Heatwave in July, and the hot dry harvest (although with a damp August and early September) suited these grapes.
  
  Thanks RN for not only spoiling us with the home cooked lamb and steaks, but for sharing this gem!
  
  Dinner with DQ and BL, LMC, RN and M, and L too.
  Outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  28 Oct 2023

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  10/6/2023 - Geoff7777 wrote:

  Medium scarlet red in colour and no more than medium body. Immediately floral on opening, with lavender, violets and plummy red fruits. Supremely elegant, with a suave palate and a long finish. Not as punchy as some other 1982's BDX, and this bottle probably better a decade ago, but a beautiful wine and very Palmer 18.75

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  9/1/2023 - MC2 Wines Likes this wine:

  Rarely get to try this wine and yet I always am in love with it. Palmer definitely hits above its punching weight and this was no different. It had some stiff competition in the line-up - there was a 66 of Palmer that really made me take notice. Still just a lovely wine with great structure and power and balance and even a touch of finesse. Lovely.

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