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The Spring 2013 Live Auction
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Lot 175
Estimate: $500
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91JG
"The 1999 Lagrange has one of the highest percentages of petit verdot in the grand vin, as seventeen percent of the varietal was utilized for the final blend (along with fifty-eight percent cabernet sauvignon and twenty-five percent merlot). Ironically, the result is a wine where the cabernet sauvignon character really dominates on both the nose and palate, as the wine offers up a youthful nose of black cherries, adolescent weedy tones, tobacco leaf, a lovely base of soil and again, just a touch of toasty oak. As 1998 and 1999 were the first two years where a high percentage of the wine underwent malo in barrel, I have to wonder if this slightly more marked impression of new oak is a result of the cellar team getting comfortable with the technique. On the palate the wine is full-bodied, young and evolving gracefully, with moderate tannins, good mid-palate depth and good length and grip on the finish."
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"The 1999 Lagrange has one of the highest percentages of petit verdot in the grand vin, as seventeen percent of the varietal was utilized for the final blend (along with fifty-eight percent cabernet sauvignon and twenty-five percent merlot). Ironically, the result is a wine where the cabernet sauvignon character really dominates on both the nose and palate, as the wine offers up a youthful nose of black cherries, adolescent weedy tones, tobacco leaf, a lovely base of soil and again, just a touch of toasty oak. As 1998 and 1999 were the first two years where a high percentage of the wine underwent malo in barrel, I have to wonder if this slightly more marked impression of new oak is a result of the cellar team getting comfortable with the technique. On the palate the wine is full-bodied, young and evolving gracefully, with moderate tannins, good mid-palate depth and good length and grip on the finish."
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