89 WS Delicious, subtle and elegant. Good ruby color. Medium-bodied, with medium, silky tannins, a floral, berry and fresh earth character and a fruity, chocolate and berry aftertaste.--1982 Bordeaux horizontal. - Wine...
97 JS / 94 WA / 17.5 JR This wine shows fabulous aromas of stones and flowers with dried fruits and spices. It’s subtle yet full with ultra-fine tannins and a gorgeous, long finish. Drink now. - James Suckling The...
100 WI / 100 DE / 99 WA / 97 JS / 97 WCI / 97 FS / 96 VM / 19 JR The 1982 Cheval Blanc has a medium garnet-brick color and springs from the glass with scents of kirsch, dried cranberries, and pencil shavings, leading to...
97 JD / 96 WA / 96 WCI / 95 VM / 95 WS / 18.5 JR I loved this bottle of 1982 Cos d'Estournel, and it was easily the best bottle I’ve had of this wine...It shows classic, even youthful notes of lead pencil, currants...
97 VM / 96 RP / 96 WCI / 18.5 JR The 1982 Grand-Puy-Lacoste put in a magnificent performance where it looks the First Growths in the eye and challenges their supposed superiority. This is unquestionably the best of a...
100 RP / 97 FS / 96+ VM / 96 WA / 96 WCI / 18 JR "The monumental 1982 Gruaud Larose, which I think I've said before is clearly the greatest Gruaud Larose I have ever tasted, and I have had most of them - back through the...
100 RP / 97 FS / 96+ VM / 96 WA / 96 WCI / 18 JR Actual bottles shown here: 100 RP / 97 FS / 96+ VM / 96 WA / 96 WCI / 18 JR "The monumental 1982 Gruaud Larose, which I think I've said before is clearly the...
99 DE / 98 JS / 97 JA / 96 VM / 96 WA / 95 WS / 19 JR Although the colour of the wine is now bricking at the rim, the core still has a deep, tawny/garnet hue. The aromas here are significantly mature, including smoke,...
100 WA / 99 RP / 99 DE / 99 WCI / 97 JS / 19 JR One of the great wines of the vintage, and the last produced under the ownership of the Woltner family, the 1982 La Mission Haut-Brion remains remarkably youthful, exhibiting...
100 VM / 100 WA / 100 AG / 100 JA / 100 DE / 100 WI / 100 RP / 100 WCI / 100 FS / 99 JD / 98 JS / 98 WS / 19.5 JR The 1982 Latour is the most consistent of the First Growths in this auspicious vintage. Tasted from both...
95 WA / 94 WCI / 93+ VM Tasted at the Latour-à-Pomerol vertical in London. The 1982 Latour-à-Pomerol has been a great wine for many years and this might well be the best that I have ever encountered. It has...
100 RP / 99 JD / 98 DE / 98 WCI / 97 WA / 18 JR The 1982 Leoville-Las Cases remains one of the awesome examples of this great vintage. Rich, full-bodied, and backward, this thick-looking, opaque ruby/purple-colored wine is...
97 WCI / 96 WA / 18.5 JR The best bottle of this I have had in ages simply rocked! Supple, seductive, rich, and loaded with sweet, deep, red pit fruits, cigar wrappers, spices, herbs, and cherry liqueur notes. With length,...
100 DE / 100 FS / 99 WI / 98 WA / 98 RP / 98 VM / 97 JS / 97 WCI / 18.5 JR This is easily up there with the best wines of the tasting. The nose is complexity and subtlety personified. Again a smoky edge to the...
100 WA / 100 RP / 100 JS / 100 JD / 99 VM / 99 DE / 99 WCI / 98 FS / 98 WS / 20/20 JR Over the last couple of years, I had inclined to the view that the 1986 vintage was eclipsing the 1982 Mouton Rothschild, but two...
100 WA / 100 JD / 100 DE / 100 JA / 100 VM / 100 RP / 99 WCI / 99 FS / 98 WS / 19.5 JR Several years ago, I purchased a case of the 1982 Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande from a frigid Alsatian cellar where it had lain...
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