1981 Wine and Port Vintage

St Julien 2eme Cru Classe

This Léoville-Barton Barton 1981 red wine is a fine mature claret with an impressive freshness. clear garnet colour with subtle aromas of cherry and green tobacco. This wine shows vivid fruit flavors with mineral undertones and a fine silky texture of tannins. Delicious now.
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Price: $116.00 USD
Stock: 25 in Stock

Tenuta Carretta - Poderi Bordino
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Nice bright crimson. Nose of cherries, cigar box and leather. Full body with good acidity and long tannin finish. A very nice wine ready to drink now.

Pair this wine with rich meat focused dishes like braised short ribs, beef roasts, lamb or veal chops. Here you'll find that the smoke and earthy qualities of the wine are complemented by the dish. Feathered game, such as duck, goose, partridge, or quail are also excellent.
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Price: $94.22 USD
Stock: 15 in Stock

Vintage Champagne Arman Label

Amongst Champagne's luxury cuveés and super-premium labels, Taittinger's wines live on one extreme end of the style spectrum.
While many top Champagnes can be quite difficult to approach in their youth, with laser-like focus and delineation, even austerity, Taittinger instead tends to be immediately open and welcoming. These are beautiful, delicious Champagnes, with bubbles lazily winding their way up to the surface, inviting you to take another sip.

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Price: $471.09 USD
Stock: 1 in Stock

Vecchio Piemonte

Barolo is known as the 'king of wines' and is made from the Nebbiolo grape. Heady aromas of rose, leather, vanilla, cherry, pepper, cranberry, strawberry. Fruits are perfectly knitted with the tannins and acidity. It's a powerful wine but remarkably subtle. Don't underestimate it and certainly serve it with food to show at it's best. Nebbiolo has naturally high tannins and acidity, so it will take on full-flavoured, rich foods no problem at all.
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Price: $217.11 USD
Stock: 1 in Stock

Paolo Scavino - Bric del Fiasc

Barolo is known as the 'king of wines' and is made from the Nebbiolo grape. Heady aromas of rose, leather, vanilla, cherry, pepper, cranberry, strawberry. Fruits are perfectly knitted with the tannins and acidity. It's a powerful wine but remarkably subtle. Don't underestimate it and certainly serve it with food to show at it's best. Nebbiolo has naturally high tannins and acidity, so it will take on full-flavoured, rich foods no problem at all.
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Price: $380.97 USD
Stock: 1 in Stock

Fratelli Barale - Castellero

Barolo is known as the 'king of wines' and is made from the Nebbiolo grape. Heady aromas of rose, leather, vanilla, cherry, pepper, cranberry, strawberry. Fruits are perfectly knitted with the tannins and acidity. It's a powerful wine but remarkably subtle. Don't underestimate it and certainly serve it with food to show at it's best. Nebbiolo has naturally high tannins and acidity, so it will take on full-flavoured, rich foods no problem at all.
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Price: $230.77 USD
Stock: 1 in Stock

Tenuta Carretta - Cannubi

Barolo is known as the 'king of wines' and is made from the Nebbiolo grape. Heady aromas of rose, leather, vanilla, cherry, pepper, cranberry, strawberry. Fruits are perfectly knitted with the tannins and acidity. It's a powerful wine but remarkably subtle. Don't underestimate it and certainly serve it with food to show at it's best. Nebbiolo has naturally high tannins and acidity, so it will take on full-flavoured, rich foods no problem at all.
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Price: $203.46 USD
Stock: 2 in Stock

Vintage Armagnac (Comes in original Lustrac Box as illustrated)

Baron de Lustrac is a small traditional éleveur specialising in fine old Armagnac vintages. Their extensive range is sourced from neighbouring estates in the Tenereze and Mas Armagnac regions and they keep an ageing and bottling chais near Magnan, in the Bas Armagnac region.

All Baron de Lustrac Armagnacs are aged in 420ltr oak barrels and sold as single vintages. The grapes used are all harvested from the one particular year, and will only be distilled if the conditions were particularly good. Perfect for big birthdays or as a special drink for the connoisseur as they truly are a fine example of the very best Armagnacs around. …
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Price: $176.15 USD
Stock: 2 in Stock

Castello Rametz - Riserva

A classic red Italian wine made from the Cabernet Sauvignon grape. The wine has aged to produce a garnet core with a clear rim. Lots of oak, leather and soft tannins remain.
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Price: $80.56 USD
Stock: 1 in Stock

Haut-Medoc

Mature and complex nose with leather, cigar box and just a little red berries. On the palate it is surprisingly fresh but rather lean. Not much fruit, as earthy notes have taken over. On the palate it has a relatively high acidity and smooth tannins. Enjoyed best accompanying food.
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Price: $81.86 USD
Stock: 8 in Stock

Pauillac 5th Growth Classification

Still some fruit left in this 1981 wine from Pauillac in Bordeaux. Complex aromas derived from ageing have now started appearing: mushroom, leather, earth. On the palate it shows good acidity and fine tannins with a long aftertaste. Leave it half hour or more in the decanter to express itself.
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Price: $162.49 USD
Stock: 12 in Stock

St Estephe, 2nd Growth Classification
Magnum (150cl)

The 1981 Cos d'Estournel is a deep ruby colour, with a spicy, rich, briery, tightly knit bouquet, this wine is deeper and more promising than the 1983, but relatively light, compact, and lean. Served from Magnums this wine will be fresher than a 75 cl bottle.

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Price: $340.01 USD
Stock: 6 in Stock

Bas Armagnac

The Chateau de Lacaze was distilled in 1981 it was then shipped in cask to the United Kingdom two years later where it was stored in damp cellars, perfect for slow ageing. Bottled 23 years later it is a smooth spirit with dark chocolate and vanilla aromas and hint of lavender, marzipan and spices.
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Price: $122.83 USD
Stock: 6 in Stock

St Julien, 2eme Growth Classification

Robert Parker writes...."One of the Medoc's more successful wines, the 1981 has reached full maturity. It exhibits a dark ruby/purple color, and a moderately attractive nose of minerals and jammy cranberry fruit intermixed with black currants. In the mouth, this wine has lost its baby fat, revealing medium body, and an elegant, measured personality. Pure, with well-integrated tannin, this is a stylish, graceful Ducru-Beaucaillou."

Rating 88 Points

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Price: $203.46 USD
Stock: 3 in Stock

St Julien, Grand Cru Classe, 2nd Growth Classification

"A top success for the vintage, the 1981 Gruaud-Larose is dark ruby, with a full-intensity bouquet of ripe black currants, spicy oak, plums, leather, smoked meat, and violets. This wine is concentrated on the palate, with rich, tannic, lingering flavors." Parker, Bordeaux 3rd Edition

Parker Rating 88/100 (excellent).


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Price: $135.18 USD
Stock: 1 in Stock

PESSAC LEOGNAN

Very complex, mature, well balanced and refined with classic earthy perfume of sweet ripe fruit, cigar box,a velvety mouthfeel and a long finish.
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Price: $539.37 USD
Stock: 1 in Stock

St Estephe

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Price: $109.17 USD
Stock: 1 in Stock

St Julien 2eme Cru Classe (Bin Soiled Labels)

1981 Léoville-Las Cases, St-Julien

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Outer quote mark The 1981 Leoville-Las Cases appears close to full maturity, with an excellent deep ruby color, a spicy, cedary, tobacco and currant-scented nose, and good depth and ripeness. A classic, elegantly wrought wine, this is one vintage where the final blend was more complex, but no better than the Cabernet Sauvignon cuvee. (RP) Inner quote mark (10/1995)
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Price: $203.46 USD
Stock: 2 in Stock

St Julien 2eme Cru Classe

1981 Léoville-Las Cases, St-Julien

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Outer quote mark The 1981 Leoville-Las Cases appears close to full maturity, with an excellent deep ruby color, a spicy, cedary, tobacco and currant-scented nose, and good depth and ripeness. A classic, elegantly wrought wine, this is one vintage where the final blend was more complex, but no better than the Cabernet Sauvignon cuvee. (RP) Inner quote mark (10/1995)
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Price: $217.11 USD
Stock: 1 in Stock

Pauillac, 5th Growth classification

This 1981 wine from Chateau Lynch Moussas still has a fresh nose, lively with classic cigar-box, farmyard and pencil-lead aromas. The palate is quite tannic with a rustic edge. Very firm though not austere. Medium depth but good fresh acidity.
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Price: $121.53 USD
Stock: 11 in Stock

St Emilion Grand Cru

A good wine from a difficult vintage. Remarkably these wines still have a dark colour, powerful bouquet with notes of black fruit and is generous and ample on the palate with an attractive texture, while still displaying pleasant spicy aromas. Wonderful.
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Price: $122.83 USD
Stock: 1 in Stock

La Torre alle Tolfe

Chianti, situated in Tuscany in central Italy, is home to probably the best-known and most iconic of all Italian wines.

Chianti, Brunello di Montalcino and Vino Nobile di Montepulciano are primarily made with Sangiovese grape whereas the Vernaccia grape is the basis of the white Vernaccia di San Gimignano.
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Price: $80.56 USD
Stock: 3 in Stock

La Muraglia

Chianti, situated in Tuscany in central Italy, is home to probably the best-known and most iconic of all Italian wines.

Chianti, Brunello di Montalcino and Vino Nobile di Montepulciano are primarily made with Sangiovese grape whereas the Vernaccia grape is the basis of the white Vernaccia di San Gimignano.
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Price: $80.56 USD
Stock: 3 in Stock

Ruffino - Aziano

Chianti, situated in Tuscany in central Italy, is home to probably the best-known and most iconic of all Italian wines.

Chianti, Brunello di Montalcino and Vino Nobile di Montepulciano are primarily made with Sangiovese grape whereas the Vernaccia grape is the basis of the white Vernaccia di San Gimignano.
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Price: $94.22 USD
Stock: 1 in Stock

Villa Antinori

1981 Villa Antinori is characterised by the wines rich ruby red colour that turns to garnet with time. Aromas of red and black cherry entwined, with notes of wild herbs, mint and a hint of earthy spice. It is supported by a racy acidity, mellow tannins and a long persistent finish.
Chianti, situated in Tuscany in central Italy, is home to probably the best-known and most iconic of all Italian wines. The area’s most highly regarded wines come from the Chianti Classico zone which is the heartland of the Chianti wine region – its traditional and longest-established vinicultural area. This fame is due not just to the high quality of the wines, but also to the classico zone's iconic Tuscan landscape and wine making traditions. …
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Price: $94.22 USD
Stock: 5 in Stock