Gruaud Larose - St. Julien 1982 Volume:750ML licorice flavor

licorice flavor

The mid-palate of the broad-shouldered flavors is pliant yet intense and muscular while the driving finish possesses breathtakingly good depth and persistence on the imposingly structured but not really rigid or unduly austere finale

a profound opaque purple color and enormous notes of lead pencil shavings intermixed with blackberry liqueur

superb concentration

Azsu-paste and a mango-scented nose that is incredibly intense

Gruaud Larose - St. Julien 1982 Volume:750ML licorice flavorA massive wine that is clearly of first growth quality in this vintage, the 1982 Gruaud Larose remains a youngster. A broodingly dense, thick, unctuously textured, inky plum garnet purple color offers up scents of beef blood, steak tartare, cassis, herbs, tobacco, and underbrush. One of the most concentrated wines of the vintage (as well as one of the most concentrated Bordeauxs I have ever tasted), it is a huge, full bodied, weighty, rich wine whose