Another one I hate to part with, but I’ve got more than I can drink.
2 bottles of 1995 H. Lignier Clos de la Roche – $275 per bottle.
Lowest price on Wine Searcher (I don’t have Wine Searcher Pro) is $319.
This is a beautiful, classically-styled burg, and it has aged gracefully. These bottles are in perfect condition.
Below are two reviews from a wine retailer’s website. FWIW, I think Tanzer’s note is much closer than Rovani’s.
Wine Advocate
This dark ruby-colored wine (originally rated 93-95 in Issue #111) displays enthralling scents of candied hazelnuts, stones, fresh herbs, blackberries, blueberries, plums, and wet gravel basking in the sun. It is just as extraordinary and complex on the palate as it is aromatically, offering an awesomely intense, broad, and expansive character. This full-bodied, mouth-coating, oily-textured, and juicy yet immensely rich wine is redolent with blackberry, cassis, cedar, stone, and briery flavors. Its stunningly long finish offers copious quantities of fruit complemented by supple tannins. Drink it between 2006 and 2020+. Bravo!
Score: 97. —Pierre Rovani, August 1998.
International Wine Cellar
Saturated red-ruby color. Sauvage, superripe aromas of briary black cherry, espresso and tar; intriguing whiff of mushroomy earth. Large-scaled and dense; truly three-dimensional in texture. A wine of great sweetness, but also sharply focused and juicy on the palate. Ripe tannins coat the entire mouth, but are outlasted by explosive finishing fruit. 94 points.
Score: 94. —Stephen Tanzer, March 1998.