The 1985 Rauzan-Ségla is a vintage that I have tasted several times from bottles I picked up cheaply some years ago

Subtle aromas of plums

it sashays out of the glass with flamboyant scents of candied violets

the notably finer middle weight flavors also possess excellent levels of volume and dry extract before culminating in an unusually powerful

The palate is well balanced with crisp acidity

Louis Latour, Vosne Romanee Petits Monts Vintage:2010 The 1985 Rauzan-Ségla is aThis is aromatically quite similar to the Beaumonts but more restrained and perhaps a bit cooler as well. The flavors are more compact as well though the dense but fine grained tannins are wellbuffered and this will probably age along roughly the same curve as that of its stable mate. Very good quality here and the linear and driving mineral inflected finish is really quite serious. 91 2018+