Gruaud Larose - St. Julien 1982 (US Label) Victoria Like the Reignots this is

Like the Reignots this is closed and brooding at present though aggressive swirling grudgingly liberates cool

weight and power to the medium weight plus flavors that brim with mouth coating dry extract that buffers well the firm tannic spine on the strikingly long finish

500-liter oak foudres

Joe Wender

Gruaud Larose - St. Julien 1982 (US Label) Victoria Like the Reignots this isA 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