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The December 2022 Auction: Part 1

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Auction Ends: 12/1/2022 6:00:00 PM PDT

Lot #750. Harlan Estate 1991

Description: Consists of 1 Bottle, 0.75L
Score: 98 RP.
"This is a profoundly great wine. It came across in a blind tasting as one of the most remarkable wines there, with most tasters mistaking it for a first-growth Médoc. The wine revealed an opaque purple color, a fabulously complex, sweet nose of minerals, fruitcake, cedar, toasty new oak, and pure blackcurrant fruit. Although huge in the mouth, the wine is remarkably well-balanced, with its high tannin level well-concealed by copious quantities of sweet ripe fruit, as well as huge amounts of glycerin and extract. I have consistently rated the 1991 Harlan Estate in the mid to upper nineties, but in this blind tasting with so many high quality wines, it was a big-time winner." Wine Advocate, Feb 1997
Provenance: The Chacal Cellar
Lot Location: Orange County
Estimate: $1,300

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