Very ripe and mature apple and pear aromas. tropical hints. Very long and powerful. This is an enormous wine with great mouth feel and textures.

From magnum. Incredibly fresh apple with good lemon hints. Far better balance and energy than most 1990s today. Never would have thought 1990 if tasted blind.

Popped and poured. Very linear start with plenty of orchard fruit aromas and flavors, seemingly lean. Picked up weight and density from middle to finish.

An impressive performance for a 1991, this showed lots of reasonably fresh apple, moderate intensity, but overall very good balance.

Magnum. Oxidized.

Nicely floral with very good orchard fruit that still shows a touch too much new oak. Drinking nicely now. Others liked this more than I did tonight.

Ripe stone fruit. Moderate maturity, in fact very fresh for any white wine at this age. Flavors and aromas are very good, but the concentration and density of this wine were particularly memorable and noteworthy. A rare treat, thank you, Michael.

Two bottles were opened, both were a stewy mess that I will hypothesize was due to heat damage somewhere in their history.

Very good fruit remains, just with a little too much structure. Firm with pronounced tannins, particularly near the end.

My WOTN. This Ponsot/Chezeaux was amazingly floral with simply alluring aromatics. A subtle and balanced 1988 on the palate, with equal contributions of earthy and fruit flavors. Long and well textured.

Not quite as exciting as another bottle from a few weeks ago. Ripe red and black cherry with moderate spice and floral notes.

From magnum. Decanted ~2 hours before serving, but that wasn't nearly enough. Lots of dense black fruit, faint red cherry hints. Great fruit, moderate spice hints, no really evolutionary development coming through yet. Didn't really show Vosne spice and character to me tonight, but I think that's just its youthfulness. Still this was better than another magnum tasted last year.

Served alongside the 1997 vintage. This 1990 comes across as more ripe, showing a good combination of fruit and evolved aromas and flavors. Less expressive of terroir to me tonight. Others preferred this to the '97.

Served alongside the 1990. Ripe and powerful black fruit aromas and flavors with a slight roasted meat character. Long, powerful, very fresh and vibrant. I easily preferred this vs the '90, while some others disagreed tonight.

Lots of pretty ripe fruit with good concentration and slight hints of espresso and liqueur. An unusual and sweet note protruded slightly near the finish that I didn't fully enjoy, but overall a really good wine. A don't recall ever having this '96 before, so didn't have a complete frame of reference.

Overall very nice, just slightly more advanced than I'd expect from 2001.

This is an extreme styled Champagne. Very large and monolithic to me, coming across as slightly underripe. There is something very exciting and energetic about this wine, but it's just not a style intended for me.