Dried flowers, rosemary, mint, smoke, cherries and raspberries define the perfume. Medium-bodied, soft, chalky, spicy raspberries fill the palate. No decsnting, pop and pour is all this, fully mature charmer needs. Drink from 2024-2029. Read more at:https://www.thewinecellarinsider.com/wine-tasting-note/?vintage=1982&wine=Chateau%20La%20Dominique

The 1982 La Dominique has been fully mature for at least 15 years, but if stored in a cold cellar, it holds on to its beautiful fruit. There is a slight hint of prunes, along with licorice, herbs, jammy black cherry and cassis fruit as well as that subtle seaweed smell that I associate with nori, the wrapper used in sushi restaurants. Still full-bodied, complex, and tasty, it is ready for prime time consumption. I don’t know how much longer the fruit will hold, so owners of this 1982 should not tempt fate. - Robert Parker

The 1982 vintage of La Dominique has always been one of my favorites for this property and the wine continues to drink very nicely at age thirty-six. The bouquet wafts from the glass in a refined blend of black cherries, sweet dark berries, menthol, cigar ash, dark soil tones and a fairly generous base of smoky new oak. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and quite suave on the attack, with good complexity and grip, still a touch of backend tannin and a long, well-balanced and focused finish. Good juice with plenty of life still ahead of it.

I never thought much of this wine, but it's a voluptous red. Black ink in color, with a garnet edge. Blackberry, black truffle and ripe fruit. Full-bodied, with full integrated tannins and a long, silky finish. Big yet harmonious.--1982 Bordeaux horizontal.