Chateau Gruaud-Larose, Saint-Julien, France 1982 Pommard Les Fremiers currants and milk chocolate with

currants and milk chocolate with fresh-basil undertones

Medium-long finish

Structured and concentrated

The palate reveals a composition of fruit notes and brioche flavors

Chateau Gruaud-Larose, Saint-Julien, France 1982 Pommard Les Fremiers currants and milk chocolate withA massive wine that is clearly of first growth quality in this vintage, the 1982 Gruaud Larose remains a youngster. A broodingly dense, thick, unctuously textured, inky plum garnet purple color offers up scents of beef blood, steak tartare, cassis, herbs, tobacco, and underbrush. One of the most concentrated wines of the vintage (as well as one of the most concentrated Bordeauxs I have ever tasted), it is a huge, full bodied, weighty, rich wine whose