TN: 1982 Château Calon-Ségur

[Baby Chickpea]

1982 Château Calon-Ségur (St.-Estèphe)
A wine I have always loved and, sadly, my last bottle of my original 8 after the previous bottle was dead and oxidised at Attila’s last offline in February. I have always found the cork to be dodgy with this 1982 (and 1982 Lynch-Bages). I approached my last bottle with trepidation, like Voltaire’s Candide endlessly searching for his eternally beautiful and beloved Cunégonde, who has grown weathered, old and ugly when he finally finds her. Beautiful mid red colour with some brick red. Bouquet? WOW! Dry liquorice, black olives, dark plums and dark chocolate. Complex. Lovely stuff! The palate is seamless, with excellent harmony and balance. Incredibly silky with great mouth feel and intense black fruits sprouting at the seems with secondary and tertiary characters entering the fray at the edges. Very classy with a ferocious assault of fine tannin on finish, establishing its authority. It may have been my last bottle, but it was the best showing at least. There’s a line in one of my favourite film noir films, Out Of the Past (1947), where Robert Mitchum’s character says “nothing in the world is any good unless you share it.”. Glad to have shared it with my brother who was astonished by this wine. Based on this bottle, still not ready and hold for at least 5 more years if from a great cellar. Fantastic wine!
94+/100