1989 Château Le Bon Pasteur

Community Tasting Notes (23) Avg Score: 90.5 points

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  11/16/2022 - GrapeScott wrote: 90 Points

  This is not a very complex wine, but it is smooth, elegant, and still has a lot of life. Plum, currant, and a touch of cinnamon and cocoa. This took about 20 minutes to open up, but from that point onward (into day 2) was drinking quite well. Not a wine to contemplate, but certainly one to enjoy.

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  10/23/2022 - VAGentleman wrote: 93 Points

  Drinking beautifully. Elegant but rich mouth of red currant, blackberry, fern, slightest hint of leather. No much decant needed.

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  10/14/2022 - VAGentleman wrote: 91 Points

  Drinking well. Red fruit, herbs,leather, and bit of menthol. All well integrated into pleasantly but not complex mouth full. It works!

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  4/2/2022 - RKatzDO wrote:

  Bottle in mint condition, cork and fill were perfect. Very good after a couple of hours of air and fine filtration. Throws a lot of fine sediment, so make sure you stand it up for a few days and decant carefully or use cheesecloth.

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  5/24/2020 - GrapeScott wrote: 91 Points

  Much better than the last bottle, which in all fairness, was consumed almost immediately after it was shipped, and suffered from a murky fine sediment that muddied some of the flavors. This bottle had a fill into the neck, with a pristine cork. Pours a deep purple without signs of bricking. Velvety smooth and quite subtle (and supple), with cedar, plum and underbrush on the nose. Gained intensity with air, but remained a rather understated wine, in stark contrast to the more modern vintages of LbP. Floral, with cherry, plum and loamy undertones, and the softest of tannins on the back end, nearly fully resolved. This was a very nice bottle, in a very good place right now.

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