1983 Graham's

[Richard Henderson]

A long time favorite but not tried in years. Surprised to see I have not posted on it before. Very nice cinnamon spice nose with lots of good fruit. NIce middle and finish. 92 points.

[Frederick Blais]

Richard, is this bottle looking at full maturity or looking young? I still have one bottle, how are the tannins, should I wait?

[Richard Henderson]

I think it is fully mature . Tannins waning just a bit. It will maintain for proabably decades and be drinkabale but it will not get any better. It is very smooth and great now and I have a lot of it as it our anniversary year, but I would not hold a single bottle past 2013, but note Andy V thinks it has 20 years to mature.

[Glenn E.]

The last bottle I had was not yet mature. We tasted it blind and before I knew what it was I said it needed 10 more years. In fact I can't think of an example that I'd say was mature yet, but that doesn't mean that they don't exist.

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[Richard Henderson]

Maybe something was up ( wrong) with this bottle, but it was fully mature, nice balance but no sign of decades of improvment. Maybe I will try another bottle soon and have something to compare.

[Glenn E.]

In the few examples of the G83 that I've had, I have consistently thought it was less mature than the G85. I don't think the G85 is mature yet - it's just more approachable right now - but it's definitely closer than the G83s that I've had.