The Distinguished Cellar Series - April 2014
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Lot 1416
Estimate: $600
Nicked and scuffed label. Tirage #662 du 12 Juillet 1989; Dégorgement de Septembre 2001.
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91+ST
"Very bright, subtle nose of toast, minerals, spices, mushroom and earth. Penetrating, crisp and very dry, with racy acids giving the mineral and toast flavors rapier-like definition. Very cool, stony flavors: like walking into a blizzard. With its powerful minerality and bracing acids..."
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Sparkling
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"Very bright, subtle nose of toast, minerals, spices, mushroom and earth. Penetrating, crisp and very dry, with racy acids giving the mineral and toast flavors rapier-like definition. Very cool, stony flavors: like walking into a blizzard. With its powerful minerality and bracing acids..."
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