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93 JG.
"The 1998 Rugiens from the Gaunoux family is another excellent and really well-balanced example of the vintage, but it too is on the young side and definitely requires more cellaring to start to fully blossom. The bouquet is a promising and nascently complex blend of cherries, pomegranate, blossoming notes of gamebird, dried herb tones, a bit of citrus peel, complex soil tones and a smoky topnote. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and very, very transparent in personality, with a rock solid core, firm, well-integrated and ripe tannins, excellent focus and grip and a long, beautifully-balanced and youthful finish. This is going to be a superb wine, but give it a year or two longer in the cellar than the Grands Épenots." John Gilman, View From the Cellar #52, Aug 2014 |