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Classic Pauillac, with firmness, strict tannins, and loads of cedar, tobacco, cigar box, and currants. The palate is on the old-school austere side of the style range, and not quite as good as I remember it being. So, if you have been waiting, do not hold off. Drink from 2025-2032.

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Consistently showing well, this is a beauty with its tobacco, lead pencil, cedar, smoke, earth, cassis and leather profile. Full bodied, and initially strict, this concentrated wine took about an hour in the decanter to fill out, soften and show its best.

What a beauty. Austere, elegance in a glass with a strong blast of cassis, cigar box, smoke, tobacco and forest floor. The wine has length and depth, with a spicy, fruit filled finish that is singing all of its song today.

Earthy, wet earth, cassis and cigar wrapper on the nose. Full bodied, deep, rich, dense, and packed with ripe dark berries, the tannins are round, the finish is masculine, yet refined and long. This really sticks with you.

One of the best examples of a mature, yet still vibrant Medoc from the legendary 1982 vintage. It's aromatically complex, full bodied, long, concentrated and full of pleasure. Lots of cassis, tobacco and truffle in every sniff and swallow...

Still young, there is good freshness to the crisp, ripe, lively, cassis and blackberry fruit. Lots of tobacco and cedar, along with tannins that can age further, this is a concentrated Bordeaux classic with a lot to offer.

I challenge you to find a better wine for the money from the legendary 1982 vintage than Grand Puy Lacoste. This beauty pops with explosive notes of cigar ash, tobacco, smoke, gravel, cassis, blackberry and wet forest floor scents. Rich, full bodied, deep and concentrated, the wine combines power with a regal palate feel, ending in a long, sweet, fresh, blackberry, earth and sweet cherry finish. This was one of the first bottles of wine I purchased when I started collecting. Seeing the then expensive, original $40 price tag put a smile on my face. Those were the days.

With a smoke filled nose, complicated by aromas of tobacco, cassis, gravel, spice and forest floor, this full bodied, concentrated, powerful wine is packed with layers of ripe, juicy cassis, spice and blackberry. This delicious Pauillac is close to its optimum drinking window.

Served blind, this wine blew everyone at the table away! From a bottle with perfect provenance, Truffle, chocoalte, cassis, cigar box, earth, smoke and spice box aromas popped from the glass with little effort. Fat, rich, polished, potent and refined, this could have been a top Second Growth or even better. At close to 30, this sublime Pauillac is still young. The opulent, polished, suave finish lasts for over fourty seconds. 1982 Grand Puy Lacoste remains the best value from the legendary 1982 Bordeaux vintage. Thanks to perfect provenance, this is the best bottle of 1982 Grand Puy Lacoste I have ever tasted.

Deep ruby in color, with cassis, tobacco, truffle, chocolate mint, spice, cedar and earth make up the perfume. Full bodied, concentrated and mouth filling. Your palate is drenched in rich cassis flavors in this traditionally styled Bordeaux. The finish is filled with chocolate covered cherries and cassis along with a minor hint of green and slight bitter cherry in the long finish. But those minor faults do not detract from the immense pleasure this wine offers. Based on this perfectly stored bottle, it might even improve, but it's showing so great today, why wait? The wine improved in the glass for 90 minutes. I hope 90, 00 & 05 turn out this good.

Cassis and lead pencil on the nose with a touch of earth and tobacco. Powerful, chewy, concentrated and a lot of fun to taste.

Black fruit, mushrooom, cigar and cedar notes were clearly evident. Full bodied and filled with multiple layers of wonderful ripe fruit. The long cassis filled finsh fills your mouth. Still young, this will only get better.

Light ruby with brick edges. Smoky cassis, black & red fruits, forest and lead pencil aromas. Very fat, dense, full bodied texture. Gobs of fruit fill your palate starting with red notes and ending in darker fruit flavors with a finish that lasts almost :40

The wine offers a ruby tint with a slight browning at the edge. The nose offers scents of green forests, coffee, cassis, mint, eucalyptus, cedar, blackberries and plums. The palate has a weighty feeling and a chewy texture with some tannins remaining to resolve. The mouth flavors consist of ripe cherries, plums, spices and black fruits. The finish lasts over half a minute.

The deep red color showed lightening around the rim. Notes of currants, black fruits, spices and wood. Good mid-palate with classic Paulliac finish. Stylish but a bit rustic. There is no hurry to drink this wine, it should last another 10-20 years depending on the storage. This is one of the better buys from the 82 vintage.