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Estimate: $1,100
1 x 3cm, 1 x 3.5cm, 1 nicked capsule, nicked, lightly glue stained, and lightly scuffed labels.
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"The ’69 Drouhin Bonnes-Mares is stellar, offering up a classic nose of red cherries, plums, woodsmoke, gamebirds, autumnal notes, mustard, earth and cedary wood. On the palate the wine is fullish, complex and drinking beautifully, with lovely focus and soil inflection, fading tannins, and wonderful length on the velvety finish. This is quite pure for a ’69, with none of the slightly pruney or roasted tones that can be found in some wines from this vintage, with good gras for a thirty-two year-old wine, and a lovely persistence on the finish. It is quite similarly cut to a bottle of the 1971 that I tasted late last year, with perhaps just a bit more mid-palate depth still remaining. Lovely, lovely juice."
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"The ’69 Drouhin Bonnes-Mares is stellar, offering up a classic nose of red cherries, plums, woodsmoke, gamebirds, autumnal notes, mustard, earth and cedary wood. On the palate the wine is fullish, complex and drinking beautifully, with lovely focus and soil inflection, fading tannins, and wonderful length on the velvety finish. This is quite pure for a ’69, with none of the slightly pruney or roasted tones that can be found in some wines from this vintage, with good gras for a thirty-two year-old wine, and a lovely persistence on the finish. It is quite similarly cut to a bottle of the 1971 that I tasted late last year, with perhaps just a bit more mid-palate depth still remaining. Lovely, lovely juice."
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