1983 Red Bordeaux
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A vintage that produced a large crop of high quality wines, largely due to the hot, dry weather throughout September and October. Immediately following the great 1982 vintage, this year has been somewhat ignored.
However, in the Médoc, and particularly Margaux, some estates produced better wines than in 1982, and what is more, they sell at a fraction of the 1982 prices. Château Margaux is unquestionably the wine of the vintage and is drinking beautifully at present.
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Case price (Bottle 12 x 75cl)
Bottle 12 x 75cl 4cs
£1,451.88
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Chateau Pichon-Longueville Lalande,
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This wine seems to be just beginning to turn the corner and was excellent in its most recent tasting. For much of its life it has been a stunning wine, not far off the mark from the prodigious 1982. The color is still a healthy dark garnet with some amber creeping in at the edge. The wine shows a very distinctive nose of asphalt, tobacco, and cigar box, intermixed with some sweet cherries and black currants. In the mouth it is medium to full-bodied, but the fruit seems to be ever-so-slightly fading. In the finish, the tannins and acidity are beginning to poke through. Nevertheless, this is still underrated and always a sleeper vintage for Pichon-Lalande, but it requires consumption.
Robert Parker - Wine Advocate, 1st January 2003
Robert Parker - Wine Advocate, 1st January 2003
Case price (Imperial 1 x 600cl)
Imperial 1 x 600cl 1cs
£1,962.00
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Robert M. Parker, Jr. - robertparker.com