Pol Roger Vintage 1949 (Label Damage)

Pol Roger Vintage 1949 (Label Damage)

all wrapped in an impeccably well-balanced and lingering finale

The 1949 Lafleur's saturated purple/garnet color is followed by a reluctant nose that with coaxing reveals intense

Foremost a mineral wine

the texture is magnificent

orange pekoe tea and plenty of earth

The 1993 Cabernet Sauvignon Herb Lamb Vineyard (which has been bottled and will be released in 1996) should turn out to be one of the most exceptional wines of the vintage

The wine spends 18 months in oak

This lightly austere and beautifully well-balanced effort is an obvious wine of class and grace

This exhibits that beguiling quality of inner mouth perfume on the sleek

but the sweetness and taste of this wine's fruit is akin to a savory blend of a chocolate-covered

moderately complex and have largely resolved the underlying tannins

Mugnier made first-rate '98s and the Amoureuses is one of the clear successes of the vintage with its higly expressive and wonderfully complex nose that has gone secondary yet remains quite fresh