Saturated cork with mould on top, top shoulder fill. This pours light garnet in the glass with moderate bricking. The nose immediately leaps from the glass to show red plum, tobacco, spice box, dry dusty soil, blood orange, and bright red cherry. A nose you can sit and smell and enjoy all night. The palate is wonderfully balanced with bright medium plus acid and medium minus tannin, turning to a finish that is perhaps only medium in length but still is tremendously enjoyable. Another consistent and lovely showing from this lesser known gem on the right bank.
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An Epic Summer Wine Weekend; 7/1/2022-7/3/2022 (Muskoka, Ontario, Canada): This pours light garnet in the glass, medium bricking. Wow, the nose on this is amazing. Immediately blasts sweet old cedar, spice box, maduro cigar wrapper, charred green bell, wet soil, dried dark cherry, and green tobacco leaf. The palate is totally resolved and lovely with medium minus tannin and medium plus acid. There is a touch of a green bitter note slightly clipping the finish, but that's minor complaint is this quite complete wine. Shockingly good stuff.
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Dark red with a brownred rim and quite transparent. Needed to filter it as cork was fragile and fell into pieces during opening. Mushrooms and autumn forest notes in the nose and also some tobacco and sweaty horseback. Very well aged and no overly oxidation. Can still sit nicely in the botyle some years although I think it is peaking now. Fresh acidity and soft tannins with a wide spectrum of flavours, complex, like lilac, coffee, toffee, dark chocolate, hints of brett and smokeyness. All in all a very well made wine that has lasted 37+ years of maturation in cask and bottle with grace.
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tasted at chevalier blind all knew it was 1982 fruit mushrooms and earth in harmony, simply fantastic and enjoyable a few hours later was starting to fade so drink up without a decant suggested
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Another Saturday at Chevalier...Mostly Blind Bordeaux (Chevalier Fine Wines - Chicago IL): The group had just tasted this as I arrived, so I didn't taste blind. Fully mature with at least as much mushroom and earth as fruit, but enough of everything in very good harmony. Good+ weight, good length. Time to enjoy. Best when first tasted vs when re-visited later in the afternoon.
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Occasional dinner group: Bordeaux 1982 (@ Treeswijkhoeve, Waalre, Netherlands): Beautiful and mature bouquet with mushrooms, autumn forest, stable smells, earth, tobacco, smoke cedar and some chocolate. Same on the palate with beautiful acidity and coffee. Elegant wine which develops quit quickly in the glass, but especially the bouquet is fabulous.
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1/27/2023 - Wine Canuck wrote: 94 Points
Saturated cork with mould on top, top shoulder fill. This pours light garnet in the glass with moderate bricking. The nose immediately leaps from the glass to show red plum, tobacco, spice box, dry dusty soil, blood orange, and bright red cherry. A nose you can sit and smell and enjoy all night. The palate is wonderfully balanced with bright medium plus acid and medium minus tannin, turning to a finish that is perhaps only medium in length but still is tremendously enjoyable. Another consistent and lovely showing from this lesser known gem on the right bank.
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7/3/2022 - Wine Canuck wrote: 94 Points
An Epic Summer Wine Weekend; 7/1/2022-7/3/2022 (Muskoka, Ontario, Canada): This pours light garnet in the glass, medium bricking. Wow, the nose on this is amazing. Immediately blasts sweet old cedar, spice box, maduro cigar wrapper, charred green bell, wet soil, dried dark cherry, and green tobacco leaf. The palate is totally resolved and lovely with medium minus tannin and medium plus acid. There is a touch of a green bitter note slightly clipping the finish, but that's minor complaint is this quite complete wine. Shockingly good stuff.
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10/3/2021 - 18111 wrote:
11th Anniversary dinner with filet mignon and lamb chops.
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2/20/2020 - Mr Walker wrote: 93 Points
Dark red with a brownred rim and quite transparent. Needed to filter it as cork was fragile and fell into pieces during opening.
Mushrooms and autumn forest notes in the nose and also some tobacco and sweaty horseback.
Very well aged and no overly oxidation. Can still sit nicely in the botyle some years although I think it is peaking now.
Fresh acidity and soft tannins with a wide spectrum of flavours, complex, like lilac, coffee, toffee, dark chocolate, hints of brett and smokeyness.
All in all a very well made wine that has lasted 37+ years of maturation in cask and bottle with grace.
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9/8/2019 - bugdoced Likes this wine: 94 Points
tasted at chevalier blind
all knew it was 1982
fruit mushrooms and earth in harmony, simply fantastic and enjoyable
a few hours later was starting to fade
so drink up without a decant suggested
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9/7/2019 - Burgundy Al wrote: 91 Points
Another Saturday at Chevalier...Mostly Blind Bordeaux (Chevalier Fine Wines - Chicago IL): The group had just tasted this as I arrived, so I didn't taste blind. Fully mature with at least as much mushroom and earth as fruit, but enough of everything in very good harmony. Good+ weight, good length. Time to enjoy. Best when first tasted vs when re-visited later in the afternoon.
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1/1/2019 - bjwca Likes this wine: 90 Points
This bottle seemed much more interesting than my previous bottle. Very enjoyable acid bite on the finish, which gave this wine some complexity.
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3/16/2018 - Zweder wrote: 93 Points
Occasional dinner group: Bordeaux 1982 (@ Treeswijkhoeve, Waalre, Netherlands): Beautiful and mature bouquet with mushrooms, autumn forest, stable smells, earth, tobacco, smoke cedar and some chocolate. Same on the palate with beautiful acidity and coffee. Elegant wine which develops quit quickly in the glass, but especially the bouquet is fabulous.
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3/16/2018 - jkoenen wrote: 92 Points
Bordeaux 1982 (Treeswijkhoeve Restaurant @ Waalre, Holland): Fantastic nose... very elegant and complex, but rapidly declining in the glass...
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5/7/2016 - bjwca Likes this wine: 88 Points
Brown brick in color, alcohol flavored. Certainly past its prime, but still enjoyable to drink within the first 2 hours.
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