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The February 2017 Internet-Only Auction Part 3
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"The 2010 Chateau le Gay is a monumental wine that’s a legend in the making. Based on 90% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Franc from a fabulous terroir, it offers a deep, powerful, masculine style as well as an incredible bouquet of crème de cassis, tobacco leaf, crushed flowers, lead pencil, and scorched earth. Possessing full-bodied richness, a massive, concentrated, yet always elegant texture, building tannin, and a purity of fruit that’s off the chart, it needs to be forgotten for 5-7 years and is going to be just about immortal in cold cellars."
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"The 2010 Chateau le Gay is a monumental wine that’s a legend in the making. Based on 90% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Franc from a fabulous terroir, it offers a deep, powerful, masculine style as well as an incredible bouquet of crème de cassis, tobacco leaf, crushed flowers, lead pencil, and scorched earth. Possessing full-bodied richness, a massive, concentrated, yet always elegant texture, building tannin, and a purity of fruit that’s off the chart, it needs to be forgotten for 5-7 years and is going to be just about immortal in cold cellars."
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The world's most influential fine-wine producer and the benchmark for Bordeaux, Burgundy, Champagne and the Rhone. Its appellation (AOC) system codifies geography, grape and method, and its wines set the global standard for age-worthiness and terroir expression.
The world's largest fine-wine region, built around blends of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. Divided by the Gironde estuary into the structured Left Bank and the plush, Merlot-led Right Bank, it is the historic benchmark for age-worthy claret and sweet Sauternes.
A tiny, prestigious Right Bank appellation famed for opulent, velvety Merlot-based wines. Iron-rich clay soils yield some of the world's most coveted and concentrated reds.
2010 in Bordeaux is a great classic vintage shaped by a dry growing season and drought that yielded small, concentrated berries; the wines are powerful and richly structured, with firm tannins, high alcohol and outstanding long-term aging potential.
Produces plush, supple, fruit-forward reds with plum and chocolate notes. Softer and earlier-maturing than Cabernet, it adds flesh and roundness to blends and stars in Right Bank Bordeaux.