Gruaud Larose - 1986 (750ml) Size:750ml Wine Spectator - 88 points

Wine Spectator - 88 points

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relatively elegant style of wine without nearly the power

super-concentrated wine offering notes of roasted espresso

Gruaud Larose - 1986 (750ml) Size:750ml Wine Spectator - 88 pointsStill tasting as if it were only 7 8 years of age, the dense, garnet purple colored 1986 Gruaud Larose is evolving at a glacier pace. The wine still has mammoth structure, tremendous reserves of fruit and concentration, and a finish that lasts close to a minute. The wine is massive, very impressively constituted, with still some mouth searing tannin to shed. Decanting of one to two hours in advance seems to soften it a bit, but this is a wine that