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new saddle leather
Anticipated maturity: 2016-2029
A little aggressive and minty
8% Cabernet Sauvignon and 4% Malbec) reminds me of a young vintage of Ausone
and precocious of the northern Medocs
Gruaud Larose - 1989 (750ml) Mencia new saddle leatherThe 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
