Racy and very long
A firm and silky wine with integrated tannins and cool
The wine is medium-bodied with smooth and supple tannins
Precise and super-clean finish
Chateau Gruaud-Larose, Saint-Julien, France 1982 Auxerrois Racy and very longA 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