Guigal La Landonne 1982 750mL (Slightly Soiled/Nicked Label) Red Burg and smoked tobacco

and smoked tobacco

938 cases of the 1991 have been bottled unfiltered and released

NOTE: I have had other bottles that seem to be drying out with a finish that displays dry wood tannins

blackcurrant jam

There is ample minerality on the fantastically complex and persistent finish and once again

Guigal La Landonne 1982 750mL (Slightly Soiled/Nicked Label) Red Burg and smoked tobacco"For such a precocious vintage, the 1982 La Landonne remains a backward, beefy, smoky, chewy mouthful of tannic wine. It has thrown a huge amount of sediment, and the bottle is completely stained, as if it were a 15 year old vintage port. The wine reveals an olive, earthy, licorice, mineral, smoked meat nose, fabulous depth, and a huge, formidably endowed personality. It is a monstrous, super concentrated wine that should reach its apogee by the turn