1988 CHÂTEAU GRUAUD LAROSE 1988

Saint Julien

Médoc - 2ème Cru Classé

Zoom

Noncontractual photograph

SoDivin rating

90-94 / 100

Very good

1988 CHÂTEAU GRUAUD LAROSE 1988

Saint Julien

Médoc - 2ème Cru Classé

Condition Good

Stock : 4 bottles

110,00 € tax incl. 91,67 € tax excl.

Avis d'expert

89 / 100

Robert PARKER - The Wine Advocate

(08-1993)
The 1988 is probably a 30-year wine. Extremely hard and backward, but concentrated, long, and full-bodied, it reminded me of the 1975, only less savage. Let's hope the fruit holds up.

92 / 100

Wine Spectator

(11-1998)
This tight and powerful red has lots of tannin and fruit concentration. Full-bodied, with lovely violet and berry aromas and flavors. Built for aging.--1988 Bordeaux horizontal. Best after 2002.

Features Château informations

Features

Vintage	1988
Rating	90-94
Classification	Médoc - 2ème Cru Classé
Region	Bordeaux
Appellation	Saint Julien
Colour	Red
Volume	0.75 l
Price	From 100 € to 200 €
Château	Gruaud Larose
Country	France

Château informations

Gruaud Larose

The Chateau Gruaud-Larose is a Bordeaux wine located in Saint-Julien-Beychevelle. AOC Saint-Julien, it is ranked second growth in the Grand Cru classification of 1855

(>> see article "Grands Crus Classés from Bordeaux, Official Classification of 1855").

Château Gruaud-Larose's vineyard is composed of 57% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot, 7% Cabernet Franc, 4% Petit Verdot and 2% Malbec. The wine stays for 16 to 18 months in oak barrels in new mediums at 35%. Some great vintages have remained exceptional in Gruaud-Larose, as in all of Bordeaux, such as 1961, 1982, 1986 or 1989. This important area with extremely rare homogeneity is implanted on 80 hectares of single piece of deep gravel rumps . It produces the largest and most robust Saint-Julien, a wine of great class and very long guard, raised until 1991 under the direction of Georges Pauli, who has exalted his characteristic style under several successive owners.