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• Paul S wrote: 94 points

  March 27, 2015 - Peter's 40th (Summer Pavilion, Ritz Carlton, Singapore): A solid wine, but it probably needs a few more years yet. It had spent an hour in the decanter by the time we got to it, but even that was not enough – the wine was still slowly opening up when we got to the end of the evening. The nose was very DRC, with whole cluster notes of tea and herb and wild brush alongside deeper aromas of dark cherries and berries, meat and mineral – all quite masculine. The palate was full and rich, with powerful, broad shouldered feel to its ripe black cherry and berry flavours wed to notes of meat and herb. Lots of depth and breadth here – quite the classic Richebourg in its masculine feel. In spite of that, this was actually very refined, with a lovely clarity and balance and a nice chewy structure of fine, powdery tannins lending the wine a classy sophistication in spite of its depth and muscle. A long, full, finish then filled the back palate with clear black fruited notes dusted with a bit of spice, herb and coffee. Beautiful stuff. 1993 DRCs have always been haunted by a rather poor reputation but, served blind, I thought this was a lovely example of how good 1993 reds can be – give this 3-4 years and it will be even better.

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