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Vintage | Wine 1988 |
Classification | Médoc - 2ème Cru Classé |
Region | Bordeaux |
Appellation | Margaux |
Colour | Red |
Volume | 0.75 l |
Country | France |
Château | Château Rausan Segla |
Country | France |
Sauternes
CHÂTEAU BAHANS HAUT BRION 1988
Pessac Leognan
DOMAINE DE LA ROMANEE CONTI 1988
Romanée Saint Vivant
Champagne
Pomerol
Champagne
Saint Julien
Pauillac
One of the vintage's most impressive as well as backward wines, Rauzan-Segla's 1988 still exhibits a youthful, dark rubypurple color, and a tight but promising nose of black fruits, minerals, and smoke. Full-bodied, powerful, tannic, and rich, this is an intensely concentrated, muscular, brawny wine built for the long haul.
An elegant lean Margaux, managing to equate soft fruit and fairly obstrusive tannin.