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  • Country ranking ?

    751
  • Producer ranking ?

    24
  • Decanting time

    2h
  • When to drink

    2020-2035
  • Food Pairing

    Beef

Food Pairing

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The Story

Château Le Pin, or simply Le Pin, is an unclassed Bordeaux wine from the appellation Pomerol. There has never been an official classification of Pomerol. Even so, Chateau Le Pin commands prices that put it at levels equal to the best wines of Bordeaux. The unusually small estate is located on the Right Bank of France’s Gironde estuary, and its wine is periodically one of the world's most expensive red wines. Le Pin was the first of the "garage...

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Vintage 1986

The 1986 Bordeaux vintage is celebrated as a monumental, slow-burning masterpiece, defined by its powerful tannins, immense concentration, and extraordinary longevity.

Following a torridly hot summer, heavy storms in September caused anxiety across the region. While the rain diluted the earlier-ripening Merlot on the Right Bank, drying northern winds quickly rescued the thick-skinned Cabernet Sauvignon of the Médoc. Châteaux that exercised ...

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Written Notes

The 1986 Le Pin was more open on the nose, a little wild and gamy, with a richer style. There was that distinctive sweet fatness there, showing chocolate and mocha tan lines. The palate was even sweeter, pretty with even fatter fruit, an open knit style with Hollywood Jef admiring its sweetness as well. This was another ‘hot year’.
  • 93p

One bottle of the 1986 Le Pin was closed and reserved, but another bottle opened a day later was seductive and incredibly perfumed. Dried lavender, sweet spices and dried berries dominate the palate but it is the exotic nose that intoxicates. Long finish.

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  • 97p

One of the more structured examples of Le Pin and still suprisingly youthful for a wine that critics say needs to be drunk in its first5-10 years, this dark garnet-coloured wine has notes of licorice, loamy soil scents, sweet black cherries, and currants along with some truffle and vanilla. The wine is medium bodied with a certain firmness and delineation, and less of the charm, glycerin and opulence that the ripe, more generous vintages provide. The finish is long and almost Médoc like. Anticipated maturity now-2015

  • 91p

Dark red. Has a really big intensity of fruit, very obvious exotic flavour, fat and ripe tannin and a superbly concentrated berry fruit. "Thick" and with long aftertaste. Will keep for at least 10 years.

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