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2008 Bordeaux and Barolo 4-Pack

A Traditionalist’s Vintage

$249.00 $272.00
$249.00 $272.00
$249.00 $272.00
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Believe it or not, the year 2008 is now almost a full decade behind us! Time certainly flies, and the good news is that many wines from the 2008 vintage—long deemed unready to drink—are now beginning to turn the corner of youth into fine wine’s equivalent of adolescence. Still young and vigorous, with many years of life ahead, they are finally starting to show the wisdom and nuance acquired from the passage of time.
    In both Bordeaux and Piedmont, the 2008 vintage yielded structured, muscular wines with lively acidity and firm tannins that are only now beginning to soften. A year that recalls an era before global warming and the prevalence of overripe, over-extracted, and downright overblown styles, it allowed traditionalists like the Fantino brothers of Monforte d’Alba and Château Gombaude-Guillot of Pomerol to craft seriously profound, perfumed, age-worthy wines. After all, Barolo is often compared to red Burgundy, but Nebbiolo from Monforte may actually have more in common with Merlot grown on the Pomerol plateau: both showcase plush fruit, powerful structure, and often develop notes of truffle with bottle age.
    This discounted four-pack will allow you to dive in right away and also save a second bottle for ten or twenty years down the line. It may sound like a long time, but remember, time flies. –Anthony Lynch

2008 Bordeaux & Barolo 4-Pack
2 bottles of each  
 
2008 Barolo Bussia Riserva “Cascina Dardi” • A. & G. Fantino  $67.00
2008 Pomerol • Château Gombaude-Guillot   $69.00

Normally $272.00
SPECIAL SAMPLER PRICE
$249
$249.00 $272.00
$249.00 $272.00
$249.00 $272.00
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Technical Information
Wine Type: sampler
Bottle Size: 750mL
Normally $272.00
SPECIAL SAMPLER PRICE $249.00

Sampler Includes:
Kermit inspecting wine barrels

For the wines that I buy I insist that the winemaker leave them whole, intact. I go into the cellars now and select specific barrels or cuvées, and I request that they be bottled without stripping them with filters or other devices. This means that many of our wines will arrive with a smudge of sediment and will throw a more important deposit as time goes by, It also means the wine will taste better.