From the excellent 1982 vintage this super red wine scores 92100 parker points and tasted at the chteau palmer vertical in london the magnum of 1982 chteau palmer is one of the best examples that i have tasted even if it is no match for the 1983 it is a little curmudgeonly at first perhaps slightly pinched but it unfolds nicely and reveals quite mineral rich soy tinged black fruit interlaced with graphite the palate is medium bodied with quite firm tannin lending this backbone it is