1989 Château Lynch-Bages
Community Tasting Note
Charlie Carnes wrote:
Friday, March 16, 2001 - I wrote this note a long time ago... the descriptions are a little dramatic, but I remember being overwhelmed by this wine and all of its properties.
Spectacular, it's as if the Green Giant and Willie Wonka were asked to invent a new style of red fruit candy which grows on vines, and Lynch Bages in 1989, picked, fermented, and bottled the candy fruits and made a spectacular wine out of them.
The wine has a different taste than I am used to. All I can say is that the fruit is so ripe and sweet, and "neat". The flavor is uncanny. The wine is highly extracted and backward, like jumping feet first from a pool and landing head up on a diving board. I liken the tannins to a parachute not opening. It is a great and beautiful ride, until that sudden stop when you hit the ground. But in this story, you walk away and want to jump again.
The wine has sweetness at the tip of the tongue, baby fat and grip on the edges, sweet tannin all the way through and a long long long finish. Will probably get better and last for a long time.
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