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Gruaud Larose 1997
HED90830
75 cl
12.5%
£123.00
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Château Gruaud-Larose is a Second Growth property situated within the Saint-Julien appellation. The estate was originally formed in 1757 by Joseph Gruaud and it’s currently owned by the Merlaut family. This is the 1997 vintage of its flagship wine, a classic Bordeaux with notes of cedar, earth and cigar box.
93 Jane Anson
A great moment to be drinking this wine, making the most of the truffle and tobacco fragrance, finely spun tannins, and the great whoosh of freshness. This is hugely appetising, mouth-watering, wild strawberries and blackberry fruits. An easy wine to underestimate, with it smoky sweetness and subtle pleasures, but it is full of life and smiles at you from the glass - although I don't suggest leaving it too long from this moment. 30% new oak, harvest Sepember 16 to October 8.Jane Anson17th November 2021
87 Vinous
Red-ruby. High-toned aromas of plum and animal fur. Sappy and vinous, though not especially deep. Attractively silky texture, thanks to rather soft tannins. Notes of chocolate and leather in the middle palate and on the finish.Stephen Tanzer1st May 2000
87 Jancis Robinson
The 1997 Gruaud Larose is a soft, fleshy effort loaded with olive and licorice-tinged, black cherry and cassis fruit. Smoky, new saddle leather notes also emerge as the wine sits in the glass. Offering excellent richness, medium body, moderate weight, low acidity, and soft tannin, it will provide delicious as well as surprisingly complex, savory drinking for a decade.Robert Parker21st April 2000
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