Chateau Palmer Historical XIXth Century Wine NV Size::6 Bottle Case light minerality

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further lessening the wine’s already minimal wood influence

The wine has an attractive lemon colour and a bouquet bursting with notes of flowers and crisp fruit

mouldy grapes are painstakingly separated from the unaffected fruit and vinified to make one of Germany’s most prized vinous treasures

The riper characters of McFelin Ridge come through with stonefruit and peach notes

Chateau Palmer Historical XIXth Century Wine NV Size::6 Bottle Case light minerality"On the occasion of a trip to the United States, we had the unique experience of tasting a Chateau Palmer 1869 at the home of a great wine collector. We began discussing the practice that was common at the time of blending fine Bordeaux wines with a small proportion of wine from the North of the Cotes du Rhone region. One can find a few bottles from this period bearing on their label the name Cru with the added mention "hermitage" or "ermitage" (the