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Rauzan Segla 1988
HED38316
75 cl
12.5%
£172.00
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Château Rauzan-Ségla is a Second Growth wine producer located in the Margaux appellation. The estate is now owned by a subsidiary of the Chanel Group and has benefitted from substantial investment. This release is from the 1988 vintage, a blend of 54% Cabernet Sauvignon, 40% Merlot, 5% Petit Verdot and 1% Cabernet Franc. It is a nicely textured wine, offering lovely notes of black currants, cigar box, damp earth and umami accents such as black truffle.
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The 1988 Rauzan-Ségla is a blend of 74% Cabernet Sauvignon and 26% Merlot, which apparently suffered a little coulure that year. Readers should note that it was tasted from a freshly poured bottle and one that had been decanted for one hour, simply for comparison purposes. Now this has a flipping gorgeous bouquet with precocious fruit for a 1988, mulberry and touches of peppermint verging on eucalyptus. The palate perhaps has not quite kept up the nose, yet it remains fresh and “solid” with firm tannin, truffle tinged black fruit intermingling with cedar and undergrowth. This is certainly the best of three or four bottles that I have tried over the years and having tasted several other vintages from this era, one of the best of the decade. Tasted at the château. Neal Martin1st May 2018
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