Gruaud Larose - St. Julien 1982 A000001438 Araujo’s 2010 Cabernet Sauvignon Eisele

Araujo’s 2010 Cabernet Sauvignon Eisele Vineyard is a picture perfect example of the year

cedar and dried rose petals

dazzling Cabernet Sauvignon

Here too the wood treatment is subtle yet just prominent enough to warrant pointing out on the cool

balanced and hugely long finish

Gruaud Larose - St. Julien 1982 A000001438 Araujo’s 2010 Cabernet Sauvignon EiseleA massive wine that is clearly of first growth quality in this vintage, the 1982 Gruaud Larose remains a youngster. A broodingly dense, thick, unctuously textured, inky plum garnet purple color offers up scents of beef blood, steak tartare, cassis, herbs, tobacco, and underbrush. One of the most concentrated wines of the vintage (as well as one of the most concentrated Bordeauxs I have ever tasted), it is a huge, full bodied, weighty, rich wine whose