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The May 2022 Auction: Part 3
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1 / 2Lot 128
Estimate: $8,500
Base neck, nicked and scuffed capsule, scuffed and damp stained label.
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"This wine is off the charts and continues to provide a level of exotic drinking and unbridled opulence that must be tasted to be believed. The wine possesses a spectacularly intense, penetrating fragrance of jammy red and black fruits, caramel, cocoa, soy, and vanilla. Extremely rich and thick, with layers of concentrated fruit, this sweet, expansive, preposterously concentrated and decadent wine is more delicious at present than the 1982 Pichon-Lalande . . . . It is as thrilling a wine as I have ever tasted . . . . Tasted 9 times since bottling with consistent notes."
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"This wine is off the charts and continues to provide a level of exotic drinking and unbridled opulence that must be tasted to be believed. The wine possesses a spectacularly intense, penetrating fragrance of jammy red and black fruits, caramel, cocoa, soy, and vanilla. Extremely rich and thick, with layers of concentrated fruit, this sweet, expansive, preposterously concentrated and decadent wine is more delicious at present than the 1982 Pichon-Lalande . . . . It is as thrilling a wine as I have ever tasted . . . . Tasted 9 times since bottling with consistent notes."
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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.
The world's largest fine-wine region, built around blends of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. Divided by the Gironde estuary into the structured Left Bank and the plush, Merlot-led Right Bank, it is the historic benchmark for age-worthy claret and sweet Sauternes.
A tiny, prestigious Right Bank appellation famed for opulent, velvety Merlot-based wines. Iron-rich clay soils yield some of the world's most coveted and concentrated reds.
Produces plush, supple, fruit-forward reds with plum and chocolate notes. Softer and earlier-maturing than Cabernet, it adds flesh and roundness to blends and stars in Right Bank Bordeaux.