1989 Château Palmer
Community Tasting Note
englishman's claret wrote:
Saturday, August 21, 2021 - The 1989 Château Palmer is a wine that (rightly) continues to garner superlatives. Like many of the top 89s, it’s just coming into full bloom - and I purposely use a floral metaphor given the lavender and violet intensity which characterizes this unquestionably great vintage of Palmer.
Followed at intervals for 4 hours in the decanter, this bottle (the first from an OWC opened today) offers a demure, if promising, nose immediately after decanting, seeming to shift minute by minute and offering frutti di bosco, lavender, pencil, leather, and ganache. But there’s nothing demure about the palate, where the wine positively explodes with luscious blueberry, lavender, violet, and cedar. Long and reverberating yet elegant - the essence of Palmer.
Moving through a phase around the hour mark dominated by alpine strawberry, this arrives at the peak of its powers after 2 hours in the decanter, packed with blueberry, cassis, alpine strawberry, lavender, and cedar; the best rendition of the nose yet. This still shows well at the 4 hour mark, by which point there are only a few sips left.
There’s no crime in opening these now provided the ability to decant for a couple of hours, but the best days for the 89 Palmer are ahead.
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