"Rousseau is for drinking" (La Trompette): Based on my scores, this keeps getting better and better! Deep and creamy yet also seamless and elegant, with enough vanilla biscuit and toffee apple to make a delicious dessert wine, and a sense of easy poise that made it simply great to drink as well. Well-evolved in a soft, honeyed register, and without the aggressive marmalade or cloying spice often found on Sauternes of this age; if I were to be picky, I might observe that it was almost *too* well-balanced!
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Fantastic — my I’m a newbie to d’Yquem, having had only 5 others… for me the 2001 is supreme, but 1990 is still great and the ideal way to end an evening. Gave it about 30min of air and served at 52 degrees
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1st of 24, pnp, perfect cork and level - darkening bright gold; nicely spiced, honeyed fruit, some marmalade and butterscotch, fresh surprisingly and very complex; fullish, v long and persistent but much younger and apparently less concentrated than appearance would imply with palate some way behind nose, attractive balance, relatively early days and with much upside, 30+ years. VF (18.5)........I expected more and greater weight of fruit based on a couple of bottles I had in the noughties when it was massive and slightly OTT; currently I'd put this behind the 89 and 88.
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Beautiful golden hue - intoxicating nose of orchard fruit, oranges, nuts, some citrus fruit and peel. Intense palate with great verve and lift; long and lush; young and maybe too young. Still holding back but awesome.
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Frey's Cat Ranch (Somewhere in the Northern Burbs, MN): Deep golden color - youthful color. Drank a glass over 30 minutes. Brown sugar, orange, spices, orange spice cake, ginger, carrot cake, savory, apricot, honeyed.
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(Château d'Yquem) Medium dark gold color with orange lights; rich, deep, apricot, dried apricot, saffron, orange marmalade nose; tasty, tart orange marmalade, honey, apricot palate; long finish
(Château d'Yquem) 375 ml bottle 1 - bright medium apricot color; nice honeyed, apricot ("apricot pastry with almond crust" per our sommelier) nose; yummy, focused, apricot and sweet orange palate with depth and good acidity; long finish 94+ pts.
375 ml bottle 2 - splash decanted first; more restrained nose at first than 1st bottle, that opened to spicy baked apricot and peach; tighter on palate than 1st bottle, apricot, apricot syrup and baked apricot; long finish 94 pts.
(Château d'Yquem) From 375 ml - light medium orange color; creme brulee, orange slice nose; remarkably drinkable (i.e., not as tight as some past bottles), orange, tangerine syrup, orange honey and creme brulee palate with luscious depth; long finish 95+ pts.
(Château d'Yquem) From 375 - Light medium orange color; creme brulee, coconut and confectioner's sugar nose; gorgeous creme brulee, tart orange, orange blossom and coconut palate with acidity; long finish 96+ pts.
(Château d'Yquem) Gorgeous apricot gold color; lovely, sour cream, brown sugar and sweet butter nose; rich, dried apricot, peach and caramel palate, lower in acidity than usual, with tangy long finish
(Y'quem) The '90 was truly thrilling wine with pefectly balance between botrytis and acidity. Wonderful texture and explosive inner mouth aromas. Stunning finish and great delineation.
(Château d'Yquem) Banana, crème brulee nose; usual concentrated, beautiful Yquem texture, layered mix of tropical fruits; long finish
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5/8/2024 - NickA Likes this wine: 95 Points
"Rousseau is for drinking" (La Trompette): Based on my scores, this keeps getting better and better! Deep and creamy yet also seamless and elegant, with enough vanilla biscuit and toffee apple to make a delicious dessert wine, and a sense of easy poise that made it simply great to drink as well. Well-evolved in a soft, honeyed register, and without the aggressive marmalade or cloying spice often found on Sauternes of this age; if I were to be picky, I might observe that it was almost *too* well-balanced!
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4/27/2024 - DVill wrote: 95 Points
Fantastic — my I’m a newbie to d’Yquem, having had only 5 others… for me the 2001 is supreme, but 1990 is still great and the ideal way to end an evening. Gave it about 30min of air and served at 52 degrees
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4/12/2024 - liber Likes this wine: 95 Points
1st of 24, pnp, perfect cork and level - darkening bright gold; nicely spiced, honeyed fruit, some marmalade and butterscotch, fresh surprisingly and very complex; fullish, v long and persistent but much younger and apparently less concentrated than appearance would imply with palate some way behind nose, attractive balance, relatively early days and with much upside, 30+ years. VF (18.5)........I expected more and greater weight of fruit based on a couple of bottles I had in the noughties when it was massive and slightly OTT; currently I'd put this behind the 89 and 88.
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4/2/2024 - mchern02 wrote: 95 Points
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Beautiful golden hue - intoxicating nose of orchard fruit, oranges, nuts, some citrus fruit and peel. Intense palate with great verve and lift; long and lush; young and maybe too young. Still holding back but awesome.
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3/29/2024 - rocknroller wrote: 95 Points
Frey's Cat Ranch (Somewhere in the Northern Burbs, MN): Deep golden color - youthful color. Drank a glass over 30 minutes. Brown sugar, orange, spices, orange spice cake, ginger, carrot cake, savory, apricot, honeyed.
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