Compared to what you have to pay for the current release, I bought this for a good price only very recently, although I was worried for an instant or two after, firstly, noticing a fill level of about very high shoulder, then, removing the foil and finding a slightly bulging cork, but, as luck has it, the wine was everything you could expect from a top class thirty-year-old Bordeaux from a great year.
The colour belies its considerable age with a blood red/garnet hue and some amber emerging in the outer edges. The nose reeks of iron, blood, herbs, saddle leather and cedar over perfectly meshed plum, blackcurrant and licorice. In the mouth, this wonderful wine sings like a nightingale with smooth texture, good weight, excellent breadth, identical flavour as found in the bouquet, rounded tannins, melted acidity and an impressively long, satisfying finish. I'd say this wine is somewhat more developed than perfectly stored bottles I've had the pleasure of trying over the years, but still, a terrific claret worthy of 93 points all day long. Bottles in better condition may last for another 10-20 years.
I hope the 1982 Calon-Segur I bought from the same source is every bit as good.
