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This Lot is for 12 bottles duty paid Chateau Potensac 1996, high fill, very good labels, in its original wooden case.
The best cabernet year of the decade in Bordeaux, 1996 is the go to vintage for mature Left bank today. Potensac is owned and made by the Delon family of Leoville Las Cases and a top value.
Notes from robertparker.com
This is the most amazing wine this estate has ever produced. It is rich and long-lived. It boasts a dark purple color, as well as sweet, earthy, black currant and cherry liqueur-scented nose. There is terrific fruit intensity and purity, as well as moderate tannin in the medium-bodied, impressively rich finish. This wine should drink well between 2002-2014. A sleeper of the vintage.
Parker 89/100 . April '99
The 1996 Potensac is a blend of 58% Cabernet Sauvignon, 33% Merlot and 19% Cabernet Franc. This vintage has quite a reputation, indeed, at 20 years of age it stands up as one of the over-achievers of the vintage. It has a lively, very pure blackcurrant and bilberry-scented bouquet with crushed stone aromas, very youthful and backward. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannin, dense tarry black fruit tinged with cedar, a dash of spice towards the structured finish with a lingering saline aftertaste. It will easily give another 10-15 years of drinking pleasure.
Neal Martin 90/100 October 2016
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