1989 Ch. Gruaud-Larose, St Julien, Bordeaux Gift Box
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Wine Advocate89/100
In this blind tasting, the 1989 Gruaud-Larose was corked, but a bottle secured through a friend and tasted under non-blind circumstances was excellent, nearly outstanding. The herbal side of Gruaud-Larose was more noticeable in the 1989. The wine revealed a deep ruby/purple color (but not the opaqueness of the 1990), more obvious tannin, without the mid-palate and sweet inner-core of fruit exhibited by the 1990. It is a big, tannic, spicy wine, with plenty of potential, but not the sweetness and chewy texture of the 1990. The 1989 needs more time to shed its cloak of tannin; give it 5-8 years of cellaring and drink it over the following 20+ years.
Robert M. Parker, Jr. - 28/02/1997
Robert M. Parker, Jr. - 28/02/1997
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Ch. Gruaud Larose produces some of St Julien's most full-bodied and long-lived wines. Sometimes tannic and ungainly in youth, with bottle-age the wines become marvellously harmonious, developing complex and beguiling characteristics of concentrated black fruits, cedar, spices and liquorice. This – from the superb 1989 vintage – is deeply coloured and massively structured, with ample mature tannins, spicy oak and tobacco-scented dark berry fruit. A wine of undisputed ageing potential, this is drinking gloriously now.
Contains one bottle (75cl) of the following:
1989 Ch. Gruaud-Larose, St Julien, Bordeaux in a wooden gift box.
Presented in a gift box.
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