The 1982 Mouton Rothschild is a modern day clone of the 1959 or 1945 (as the late cellarmaster Raoul Blondin said to me when I first tasted it in March
blackcurrant jam
938 cases of the 1991 have been bottled unfiltered and released
Bordeaux-like effort with beautiful elegance
Guigal La Landonne 1982 750mL (Slightly Soiled/Nicked Label) Red Burg The 1982 Mouton Rothschild is"For such a precocious vintage, the 1982 La Landonne remains a backward, beefy, smoky, chewy mouthful of tannic wine. It has thrown a huge amount of sediment, and the bottle is completely stained, as if it were a 15 year old vintage port. The wine reveals an olive, earthy, licorice, mineral, smoked meat nose, fabulous depth, and a huge, formidably endowed personality. It is a monstrous, super concentrated wine that should reach its apogee by the turn