Description
Reviews
Robert Parker, Wine advocate 2003: 91 points
“This wine continues to get better and better, yet is still not close to full maturity, despite what I would have thought 16 years ago. The wine has a dense, dark plum/ruby color with just a bit of lightening at the edge. A sweet nose of black cherries intermixed with balsam wood, vanilla, and Provencal herbs has an almost Rhone-like character to it. The wine is medium to full-bodied, rich, with a lot of flesh, light to moderate tannin, and great balance and purity.”
John Gilman, 91 points ( August 2016)
The 1986 vintage at La Lagune is very strong, but like many of the wines from this vintage, this is still a few years away from fully blossoming. The bouquet is already quite first rate, wafting from the glass in a blend of cassis, espresso, cigar ash, dark soil tones, tobacco leaf and a smoky topnote. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and complex, with a superb core of fruit, still a slight sharp edge to its remaining tannins and excellent length and grip on the well-balanced and still gently chewy finish. Another five years would be ideal for this excellent example of the vintage.
750ml
14.0% alc vol
£110.00
