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The December 2019 Auction: Part 3
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Lot 79
Estimate: $9,500
Lightly bin soiled vintage neck tag, nicked, lightly bin soiled, and lightly scuffed label. #0080.
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100JG
"It had been a long, long time since I last drank a bottle of the 1996 Cros Parantoux from Henri Jayer and I was so happy to see that this wine has developed beautifully with bottle age and is just about ready to deliver on all of its immaculate early promise. The bouquet has an exotic touch of sappiness that is very beguiling, as the aromatics surge from the glass in a blend of plums, raspberries, dark chocolate, Vosne spices, pigeon, cinnamon, a gloriously complex base of soil tones and spicy oak. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied, flawlessly balanced and seamless, with a sappy core, great transparency, tangy acids and laser-like focus on the very, very long, very complex and moderately tannic finish. Sheer brilliance and now nearing its apogee."
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Red
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"It had been a long, long time since I last drank a bottle of the 1996 Cros Parantoux from Henri Jayer and I was so happy to see that this wine has developed beautifully with bottle age and is just about ready to deliver on all of its immaculate early promise. The bouquet has an exotic touch of sappiness that is very beguiling, as the aromatics surge from the glass in a blend of plums, raspberries, dark chocolate, Vosne spices, pigeon, cinnamon, a gloriously complex base of soil tones and spicy oak. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied, flawlessly balanced and seamless, with a sappy core, great transparency, tangy acids and laser-like focus on the very, very long, very complex and moderately tannic finish. Sheer brilliance and now nearing its apogee."
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Arguably Burgundy's most exalted village, home to legendary Grand Crus. Its Pinot Noir is renowned for perfume, silk and sublime complexity.
A thin-skinned, terroir-sensitive red producing perfumed, silky and elegant wines of red-berry fruit and earthy complexity. It reaches its apogee in Burgundy.
