Le millésime 82 à Bordeaux
Posté : 03 févr. 2016 15:16
Le millésime 1982 est celui qui a valu la gloire à Robert Parker (cf le sujet dédié).
On peut lire sur Decanter un article écrit 20 ans après (en 2002, donc, pour ceux qui ont du mal à suivre) par David Peppercorn (Master of Wine) :
On peut lire sur Decanter un article écrit 20 ans après (en 2002, donc, pour ceux qui ont du mal à suivre) par David Peppercorn (Master of Wine) :
Twenty years on – 1982 vintage
With 20 years behind us, the place of 1982 in the evolution of the Bordeaux vineyards is clear – as is the success of the vintners in converting quality on the vine into quality in the bottle. Going back over the tasting notes I made in the spring and autumn of 1983, my overwhelming impressions were depth of colour, very ripe-scented and often exotic fruit on the nose, great beauty of flavour and luscious fruit flavours allied to great tannic power, rather buried under the fruit initially but coming through ever more strongly as the wines evolved in barrel. We hailed it as the greatest vintage since 1961, though I always felt that only Latour really measured up to that remarkable year.
What 1982 did do, though, was to usher in a series of high-yielding, ripe vintages that have been the hallmark of the last 20 years. It took producers some time to come to grips with the challenges that this posed and there can be no doubt that, if the vintage had come today, many more outstanding wines would have been made. The primary reason why many wines that looked impressive in barrel have failed to stand the test of time turns on a lack of selection, as second wines were still the exception and green harvesting was still in the future.