1989 Château Lynch-Bages

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  5/19/2024 - IvanKrazy wrote: 95 Points

  Amazing bottle. It was so aromatic right on opening with a beautiful intense color. Great nose and palate presence, it feels like this wine will live forever!

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  5/19/2024 - Ex-Ray Likes this wine: 100 Points

  4th time we've had it since December, 2019, 4th time I've rated it 100! Purchased on release in 1992, one bottle left. For a 35 year-old wine, incredibly young and vibrant, still dark garnet and minimally translucent, just minimal brown at the edges. The aroma is immediate and powerful upon pouring...sweet cassis and blackberries, with beautiful toasty French oak, some cedar, hint of tobacco and leather. No question it's Bordeaux! Lots of dark fruit but sweet flavors, intense but also round and perfectly balanced, not coarse or heavy. Late palate and aftertaste show some licorice and a bit of heat, but the flavors linger for a minute. This is as great as Bordeaux gets in the glass. Drink, but may hold longer, no signs of fading seven hours after decanting.
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  4/22/2024 - VINNICK wrote: 100 Points

  This is becoming one of my favorite producers and this vintage maybe my favorite wine. Opened Friday evening and slow oxed for 24 hours, had half the bottle on Saturday and the second half Sunday. Kept at 55 the entire time but better to drink at 60. The wine is flawless, perfect balance, elegance, and harmony. Everything you expect from a great Bordeaux.

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  3/2/2024 - MC wrote:

  Decanted 30 minutes and enjoyed over dinner at a restaurant. This was great - really enjoyable with dark cool fruit, really nice secondaries, and a nice long finish. Incredible how dark and even primary the fruit is at this age. Will live for a long time. A

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  3/1/2024 - the player Likes this wine: 97 Points

  Tremendous wine. Opened and aerated in bottle for an hour then decanted and drank over two hours. Cork almost fully soaked. Deep crimson red color, nose wafting with perfumed cassis, black currants, leather initially which morphed into cigar tobacco with more time in the decanter. Beautifully crafted wine, complex with secondary notes of mature delicious dark red and black fruits. Silky entry on the palate, expands beautifully mid palate with superb balance, finishes long with notes of coffee. As good as the 1982 if not better.

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