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Gruaud Larose 300cl (Ex Chateau) 1989
HED72041
300 cl
£668.00
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94 Jane Anson
Juicy and drinkable, mint leaf, tobacco, savoury blue fruit, cumin and incense, creamy as it opens up. This kept on delivering, really holding up over several hours of being open and enjoyed. No Malbec in rhe more ecent blends of Gruaud Larose, but this was during the beginning of vineyard restructuring under Suntory (owners since 1989) and a reminder of the 19th century years when this was the dominant grape of the Médoc. Tasted out of magnum, Philippe Carmaigac cellar master, 35% new oak.Jane Anson18th June 2026
92 Jancis Robinson
The 1989 Gruaud Larose is evolving very slowly, and its impressively youthful structure and vibrant flavors auger very well for its future. Offering up aromas of sweet berry fruit, cigar wrapper, loamy soil and cedar, it's medium to full-bodied, with a rich core of fruit, lively acids and fine but still present tannins. As this develops in the cellar, it's showing more plenitude and mid-palate volume than it did a decade ago, and for patient readers this is emerging as a comparatively underestimated 1989 Médoc.William Kelley28th February 2022
Vinous
The 1989 Gruaud Larose is a vintage that I tasted regularly back in the day - it was reliably inconsistent, and you prayed for a good bottle. I bought this bottle with sound provenance…sadly, it was not a good bottle. It was not corked, but the fruit was definitely scalped on the nose, a little metallic. The palate is angular, and again, it feels, for want of a better word, lobotomized. Nobody drank more than a couple of sips out of curiosity. Caveat emptor. Tasted at the 1989 dinner at Piccolino in London. Neal Martin27th March 2024
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