Style: red, dry
Vintage: 1986
Origin: Saint-Julien, Bordeaux, France
Classification: 2me Grand Cru Classé (Medoc 1855)
Varietals: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Petit Verdot
Aging potential: 2040
Reviews: 94 (Robert Parker)
A beautiful wine from an excellent vintage.
This wine is full of evolved notes: tobacco, leather and earth. It also charms with its fruit: blackcurrant, cherries, lingonberry. The structure: tannins are well incorporated, gentle yet still powerful. Due to these tannins and a great acidic backbone this wine has a great chance to survive at least the next decade in the cellar.
The history of this particular series of wine offered at this auction is worth mentioning. In 2011, the bottles were returned to the chateau, where each bottle was opened and checked for potential faults. The bottles that passed the test were then recorked and once again sold on the market. As such, we have a guarantee, that every bottle is in perfect condition.
