Chateau Gruaud-Larose, Saint-Julien, France 1982 Pommard Les Fremiers 40% new and 60% one

40% new and 60% one year old

very representative of its territory

The palate reveals a composition of fruit notes and brioche flavors

Of a deep garnet red

with ripe tannins on the long finish

Chateau Gruaud-Larose, Saint-Julien, France 1982 Pommard Les Fremiers 40% new and 60% oneA 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