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• Cailles wrote: 94 points

  December 31, 2023 - 20 Top Wines of the 1983 Vintage: Three whites. The Laville Haut Brion (96 pts) is incredibly impressive: so young and vibrant, with a perfect balance, intense and expressive, all centered around a rainbow of highly precise fresh tropical fruit notes. This seems to be an immortal wine, highly impressive but would need a bit more complexity to reach the next level. The Y d‘Yquem 1985 (94+pts) was added to the 1983 lineup as we were one white short, and it didn‘t disappoint. A complex dry Sauternes, with all the telltale aromatics and lots of freshness, missing just a bit of a cleaner, more expressive nose to reach an even higher score. The Pavillon Blanc (92pts) is more evolved than the others and shows less precise and clean but has a good acidic spine and lots of minerality giving additional lift.
  
  Decanting: Not decanted, no decanting necessary.

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• G_H wrote: 95 points

  November 25, 2023 - 40 years on: A global 1983 retrospective: Petrol, pear, saffron. Creamy, dense with a long finish and a great balance despite having a kiss of residual sugar and even botrytis.

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• sirpat00 wrote: 93 points

  November 25, 2023 - 1983 vintage horizontal with >20 wines, mostly from Bordeaux. Key observations: 1/ Acceptable vintage for Champagne with DP over-delivering, 2/ Laville Haut Brion is a masterpiece among the whites, 3/ Bordeaux is going strong at 40 years of age with stand-outs Latour and Margaux. 4/ No need to chase any Napa’s from the vintage, 5/ off-piste Italians kept up impressively with Soldera an undisputed medalist.
  
  Tasting note:
  Given availability challenges, this is the ’85 rather than the ’83 like the rest of the flight. A spicy touch of saffron, baked pear and peach pie fruit form a Sauternes-like aroma profile. A structured, even muscular palate with sufficiently fresh acidity. This one is fully alive and kicking while showing age-appropriate features.

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• kostaslonis wrote: flawed

  February 22, 2023 - Olga going away party (Jerar): corked

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• edwine__ Likes this wine: 94 points

  July 1, 2022 - My first experience in Yquem Dry White back vintage, it’s quite a wonderful experience.
  Smells like a dyquem sweet with the notes of pineapple, apricot, honey, citrus and slightly floral. Palate is balance, elegance, deep and dense with lingering finish and laser acidity.
  Definitely on the peak!

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1985
• Type White
• Producer Lur-Saluces
• Varietal Sémillon-Sauvignon Blanc Blend
• Designation "Y"
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Bordeaux
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation Bordeaux Supérieur
• UPC Code 3511061659825

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• In Cellars 116 (60%)
• Consumed 78 (40%)

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