Every time I have this wine in tastings outside my cellar I have guessed it to be Petrus and I have rated it as one of the greatest 1982s. My scores have ranged from 96-100. From my cellar the wine has always tasted super-concentrated impressive and frightfully backward and not nearly as flattering and open. This tasting note is based on a wine from my cellar - a cold damp storage facility. The wine reveals no signs of age in its color which remains an opaque thick- looking ruby/purple. The nose offers up reticent aromas of super-ripe black fruits (jammy cherries) combined with earthy truffle cedar and chocolate notes. Full-bodied and super-concentrated with high levels of extract glycerin and tannin this remains an outrageously rich and compelling Pomerol that I find needs another 5 years until it begins to enter its plateau of maturity. It will easily last through the first three decades of the next century . It is a majestic Certan de May as well as the finest young vintage of this wine I have tasted but it is evolving at a glacial pace. Tasted 16 times since bottling in 375 ml 750 ml and magnum formats with consistently brilliant notes.</P>

Rather closed. Very dark ruby color with a slight amber edge. Intense blackberry earth and chocolate aromas. Full-bodied and chewy with lots of berry and dark chocolate flavors. Full and velvety yet slightly hard astringent tannins. Still needs time.--1982 Bordeaux horizontal. Best after 2000. –JS