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The November 2018 Internet-Only Auction Part 4
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Estimate: $2,250
Very lightly scuffed label.
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"Pure Merlot and 100% new oak: the recipe sounds as if it never changes at this Pomerol jewel, but Jacques Thienpont is a winemaker who knows how to adapt to the vintage, drawing the best out of his small plot of grapes. The gravelly, sandy soils have yielded a wine that is minerally and quite light, but with hidden profundities. Fine, aromatic, Merlot with a feminine touch, reflecting the influence of Thienpont's wife, the British Master of Wine, Fiona Morrison."
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"Pure Merlot and 100% new oak: the recipe sounds as if it never changes at this Pomerol jewel, but Jacques Thienpont is a winemaker who knows how to adapt to the vintage, drawing the best out of his small plot of grapes. The gravelly, sandy soils have yielded a wine that is minerally and quite light, but with hidden profundities. Fine, aromatic, Merlot with a feminine touch, reflecting the influence of Thienpont's wife, the British Master of Wine, Fiona Morrison."
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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.
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.