An impactful, charming and exciting wine with sweet cedar, tobacco, caramelised nuts, cherries, vanilla, milk chocolate and red berries on the nose. Clean and lively, bright and focussed with clear delineation to the flavours and tannins. High acidity gives the life with quite a metallic bite underneath. Sharp and direct, but something very easy about this too and a lovely long persistence keeping the sleek frame. Tannins are gently textured with typical and likeable St Julien minerality. Not the most plump and fleshy of the tasting but this still makes an impressive impact.

This is an elegant 1982 with blueberry raspberry mineral and spicy oak aromas in the moderately intense polite bouquet. The color is a healthy dark ruby with no lightening or amber. The wine exhibits firmness in the mouth as well as good flesh a sweet ripe entry medium body and impressive elegance and length. Not a blockbuster such as Gruaud-Larose Leoville-Las-Cases Leoville-Barton and Leoville-Poyferre this youthful vibrant 1982 is a model of symmetry and finesse. Anticipated maturity: now-2015.

A big traditional-style red. Ruby-garnet in color with chestnut berry and truffle aromas. Full-bodied and very concentrated with velvety tannins and lots of mushroom and earth flavors. Slightly dry.--1982 Bordeaux horizontal. Drink now. –JS