Château Palmer, Ch. Palmer 1981

81 / 100 Robert Parker
This is a relatively light, almost indifferent style of Palmer, lacking depth, and coming across as straightforward, with a simple plummy fruitiness intermingled with scents and flavors of herbs, oak, and cedar. It is medium bodied and austere for a Palmer.

89 / 100 Wine Spectator
Always a delicious wine. Soft and elegant with perfumed cherry, strawberry and cedar box character, fine tannins and a silky finish. Drink now.--The Bordeaux 50. –JS
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