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Lot 1449
Estimate: $60
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"One of the greatest producers of southern France, this Bandol estate is dedicated to producing massive, hugely extracted wines that are meant to gracefully endure 20-30 years of cellaring. Two wines to make reservations for are the 1990 Bandol and 1990 Bandol Cuvee Vieilles Vignes. These sensational wines are the quintessential expressions of Bandol. Neither is flattering or charming, but both are enormously constituted, massive wines that are closer to a Barolo Monfortino from the likes of Giacomo Conterno than to a more supple, user-friendly Bordeaux or Burgundy. Both of these wines will require a considerable investment in patience - at least a decade. The 1990 Bandol exhibits an opaque black/purple color, a huge nose of licorice, black truffles, garrigue, leather, tar, and gobs of blackcurrants. Extremely full-bodied and excruciatingly tannic, this massive, super-rich wine reveals a touch of volatile acidity as it sits in the glass. Huge and idiosyncratic, it is a wine of great individuality and style. . .Wines of such intensity and power are rarely made today. They are the antithesis of the modern day palate longing for supple, easy to drink and understand wines."
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"One of the greatest producers of southern France, this Bandol estate is dedicated to producing massive, hugely extracted wines that are meant to gracefully endure 20-30 years of cellaring. Two wines to make reservations for are the 1990 Bandol and 1990 Bandol Cuvee Vieilles Vignes. These sensational wines are the quintessential expressions of Bandol. Neither is flattering or charming, but both are enormously constituted, massive wines that are closer to a Barolo Monfortino from the likes of Giacomo Conterno than to a more supple, user-friendly Bordeaux or Burgundy. Both of these wines will require a considerable investment in patience - at least a decade. The 1990 Bandol exhibits an opaque black/purple color, a huge nose of licorice, black truffles, garrigue, leather, tar, and gobs of blackcurrants. Extremely full-bodied and excruciatingly tannic, this massive, super-rich wine reveals a touch of volatile acidity as it sits in the glass. Huge and idiosyncratic, it is a wine of great individuality and style. . .Wines of such intensity and power are rarely made today. They are the antithesis of the modern day palate longing for supple, easy to drink and understand wines."
The world's most influential fine-wine producer and the benchmark for Bordeaux, Burgundy, Champagne and the Rhone. Its appellation (AOC) system codifies geography, grape and method, and its wines set the global standard for age-worthiness and terroir expression.
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