Lafite( Top Shoulder)- 1982 (750ml) Sangiovese oak and graphite

oak and graphite

5% Petit Verdot) has a dark ruby/plum color and a gorgeous

one would think that winemaker Bob Cabral would be perennially stressed out having to deal with so many different vineyards

Wine Advocate - 90

This has so much ripe fruit

Lafite( Top Shoulder)- 1982 (750ml) Sangiovese oak and graphitefill in the base of neck, very torn label This is a denser version of the 1990 that stylistically reminds me of what the young 1959 probably tasted like. Still backward with a deep ruby plum color revealing only a touch of lightening at the edge, the wine offers up an extraordinary nose of caramelized herbs, smoke, cedar, pen ink, black currants, and earth. The gorgeous aromatics are followed by a full bodied, plump, rich, fleshy wine with low