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Estimate: $9,000
3cm, lightly scuffed capsule.
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"I have been very fortunate over the years to drink the 1990 Cuvée Cathelin from Gérard and Jean-Louis Chave on a handful of occasions, but I had not crossed paths with a bottle in over ten years prior to this example. The wine has aged brilliantly over the ensuing decade and is sheer perfection today, soaring from the glass in a complex and very refined blaze of black cherries, blackberries, cigar smoke, a very complex base of stony soil tones, smoked meats, pepper, a deft framing of toasty new oak and an exotic topnote of bergamot. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied, complex and simply bottomless at the core, with flawless balance and focus, moderate tannins and great length and grip on the dancing and magical finish. This is humbling in its sheer beauty."
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"I have been very fortunate over the years to drink the 1990 Cuvée Cathelin from Gérard and Jean-Louis Chave on a handful of occasions, but I had not crossed paths with a bottle in over ten years prior to this example. The wine has aged brilliantly over the ensuing decade and is sheer perfection today, soaring from the glass in a complex and very refined blaze of black cherries, blackberries, cigar smoke, a very complex base of stony soil tones, smoked meats, pepper, a deft framing of toasty new oak and an exotic topnote of bergamot. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied, complex and simply bottomless at the core, with flawless balance and focus, moderate tannins and great length and grip on the dancing and magical finish. This is humbling in its sheer beauty."
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