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Wine Description
The Story
Richebourg is a king of a wine: the Colonnade of the Louvre, the Château of Versailles. You are impressed by its finesse, its length and its delicate sensations, endlessly changing. The fact that no element dominates the others enables you to appreciate all of its aromas, on the nose and on the palate. Force and subtlety in one wine ?
Richebourg reacts well to new oak, which it can dominate completely. It is therefore regularly matured...
Wine Information
The sun at the end of the season enabled the grapes to mature perfectly and produce round and generous wines. This year was surprising in the way it aged: after a fairly fast start, as predicted, the wines have since settled down and now offer fullness and balance, with no sign of fatigue. No denying it, a shining light in the decade of the 80s. To be drunk sparingly: you should keep a few control bottles.
Vintage 1985
1985 Burgundy by Clive Coates MW / The 1985 vintage represents a turning point in the wine history of Burgundy. Before this date, on the whole, winegrowers made wine, merchants bought it, assembled several plots, if necessary, and sold it. Subsequently, more and more estates began to mature, bottle and market the wines themselves. In the meantime, many merchants had taken the opportunity to expand their own estates, so that, particularly at th...
