Lynch Bages 1982 750mL White Burg Soaring aromatics and gorgeous fruit

Soaring aromatics and gorgeous fruit race out of the glass

the 2015 Petrus (bottled in mid-July 2017) opens in its own time to reveal crushed black cherries

This is a big wine in the context of the vintage and built to reward longer-term cellaring

monumental richness

Lynch Bages 1982 750mL White Burg Soaring aromatics and gorgeous fruit"I tasted the 1982 Lynch Bages twice within a month, both at a private dinner in London and at the chteau, from bottle and double magnum on separate occasions. Both vindicate an exceptionally fine 1982, perhaps a bit overlooked in a vintage full of stars. Curiously, the bottle in Bordeaux does not fully deliver the mesmerizing freshness and energy compared to the bottle in London: pencil lead tinged black fruit intermixed with clove and freshly rolled