1996 Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste, Pauillac, Bordeaux

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1996 Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste, Pauillac, BordeauxFrancois Xavier Borie is now producing some of Bordeaux's greatest wines, expressing the personality of the terroir possibly more than any other proprietor. A fabulous wine balancing concentration, ripeness of fruit and complex structure all in one. One of the finest wines of the vintage.

Concluding with a sapid

with hints of oriental spices alongside the classical Pinot fruit

This will require several years in bottle

The Charmes is indescribably elegant and also deceptive today in its openness

The Clos Cazals Vielles Vignes is a wonderful expression of Oger

it is the raw energy that impresses me most

The tannins show snap and crunch

the dark tight flesh with well-developed acidity that you have come to expect from this wine

this is complemented by a profound yet subtle intensity that more than justifies the supreme reputation of this wine

fleshy core that's girdled by bright acids and enlivened by a pillowy mousse

Crushed rocks

fragrant nose