Gruaud Larose - St. Julien 1982 Volume:750ML but without the nobility

but without the nobility

Lovely and understated

Very delicate and fresh on the palate

earth and violet-scented nose

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

Gruaud Larose - St. Julien 1982 Volume:750ML but without the nobilityA 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