1990 Georges Lignier et Fils Bonnes Mares

Community Tasting Notes (20) Median Score: 94 points

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  1/31/2023 - Musigny1955 Likes this wine: 95 Points

  {Bought by AM on release, tasted with AM, EB, TS} Extraordinarily pretty nose, clearly Grand Cru depth and balance, I thought this wine might be a Roty given the nose and opulence yet balance. All the Bonnes Mares flavor sets of big dark (almost Morey) fruit, spicy elegance like a Vosne-Romanee, hints of licorice ... totally brilliant wine. Peaked about 90 minutes after opening & decanting so no rush to drink if you have it. No hint of fading, and agree it is "mature, elegant, and complex" per jerhardt's note. Wow wine and wine of the night for me (others: 1978 Corton Grancey 93, 1990 Beaucastel 94, 2013 Jadot Corton-Charlemagne 94). Hats off to AM for buying this 30 years ago!

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  8/28/2022 - jerhardt wrote:

  5 years since my last bottle, and this one showed as good as all of the prior ones consistently have. Exactly what I want in mature grand cru red burgundy. None of the vintage over-ripeness or hard edges, just a beautifully mature, elegant and complex wine. Bummed to be down to my last few.

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  8/8/2022 - soyhead wrote:

  nose - tomatoes, coffee, smoke
  mouth - at 30+ yrs this wine has lots of interesting tertiary flavors esp that of brown sugar. From a vineyard that really needs a lot of time to show its stuff.

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  11/5/2017 - drwine2001 wrote:

  Amazingly deep ruby without any fading. Panoply of candied, spicy, stemmy dark red fruit on the nose. Big, strapping, masculine wine with terrific red fruit, lots of tannins, and clay based foundation. Terrific and not nearly at the point of full development.

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  12/11/2015 - Golf_Wine Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Dense complex nose and drinking it matched the nose. Silky nice long finish. Slow ox for one hour but needed another 20 minute in the glass to reveal it self. Can't imagine it will develop any further but will still fair well for years. Just great.

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