1988 | Chateau Rauzan Segla | Margaux

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Red Wine: 1988 | Chateau Rauzan Segla | Margaux

A very strong, powerful wine with an opaque ruby/purple color .Bouquet of black currants intermixed with iron, smoke, licorice, and dried herbs, this muscular, very masculine, brawny wine seems built for the long haul.

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Producer: Chateau Rauzan Segla

Ratings: WA | 91 JG | 92

Vintage: 1988

Size: 750ml

ABV: 12.5%

Varietal: Bordeaux Blend Red

Country/Region: France, Bordeaux

A very strong, powerful wine with an opaque ruby/purple color .Bouquet of black currants intermixed with iron, smoke, licorice, and dried herbs, this muscular, very masculine, brawny wine seems built for the long haul.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: Bouquet of black currants intermixed with iron, smoke, licorice, and dried herbs, this muscular, very masculine, brawny wine seems built for the long haul.

• John Gilman: This most recent bottle was beautiful and just starting to really hit on all cylinders, wafting from the glass in a mix of black raspberries, cigar ash, charred hardwood, dark soil tones and gently toasty new oak. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied, complex and just reaching its plateau of maturity, with a lovely core of fruit, fine soil signature and grip, ripe, buried tannins and a long, very well balanced finish. This is a lovely wine.

Producer Information

Chteau Rauzan-Sgla is a second growth from Margaux, Bordeaux, as set out in the 1855 classification of Medoc and Graves. The wine of the same name is rich and concentrated, and is often considered one of the best of the second growths. Cabernet Sauvignon accounts for 62 percent of the 70-hectare (173-acre) vineyard, with Merlot at 36 percent and a small amount of both Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot making up the remainder. Soils are clay gravels on a Quaternary river terrace with areas of deeper fine gravel. The second wine, Sgla, is made in a more approachable style than the grand vin. It features a higher proportion of Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot. Since 1994 and its acquisition by fashion giant Chanel, quality has improved at Rauzan-Sgla. Machine harvesting was eliminated, and there was a move to work the vineyards plot by plot. Grapes are sorted by hand and are aged in high-quality Sessile oak barrels. The grand vin spends 18 months in oak with 60 percent new wood.