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1996 Valandraud

Wine Details
Producer

Valandraud

Place of Origin

France

Saint Émilion Grand Cru Classé

Bordeaux

Color

Red

Grape/Blend

Merlot

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Jean-Luc Thunevin cult wine continues to fetch outrageous prices in the resale market, but collectors and speculators are at least getting an amazingly concentrated, spare-no-expense wine that leaves far too many right-bank wines from more favored soils in its dust. Thunevin declared just 36 hectoliters per hectare in '97, then carried out a saignee, declassified 11 barrels from his Saint Sulpice holding on sandy soil, and similarly eliminated the press wine. The result will be only about 200 cases of one of the few outstanding right-bank wines made in '97, scarcity sure to make rabid collectors foam at the mouth.