1990 Ruinart Champagne Dom Ruinart Blanc de Blancs

Community Tasting Notes (35) Avg Score: 92.7 points

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  12/2/2023 - Eric Wright Likes this wine: 93 Points

  A little musty on the nose, but that blew off with time. Clearly showing the age, but still lovely brioche with some complexity.

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  11/7/2023 - BradE wrote:

  Served blind from mag, and we all were guessing older than it turned out. Enjoyed by all, but it had stiff company with the terrific 2010 and 2007 served alongside.

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  11/1/2023 - dcwino wrote: 97 Points

  Grand Jury du Vin - Republic of Georgia; 11/1/2023-11/9/2023 (Republic of Georgia then stopover in Paris and Dijon): Perfectly cellared en magnum. Perfectly mature nose displaying succulent sweet yellow fruit, peach, baked apple, clementine, honey, light caramel, brioche, sweet spices and mineral. Excellent concentration, layers upon layers of generous yellow fruit, rich and opulent but also beautifully balanced, medium generous fine mousse, good acidity, strong mineral, and a long ripe opulent yellow fruit driven finish with honey and caramel at the end. Drinking incredibly well. Champagne is always better in magnum format.

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  3/3/2023 - Eric Wright Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Initially a bit metallic. With some air, lovely brioche. Hints of cheese, but not unpleasant. Surprising effervescence. Overall enjoyable

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  7/19/2022 - Paul S wrote: 94 Points

  Blanc de Blancs over lunch (Summer Pavilion, Ritz Carlton, Singapore): A delicious Champagne, drinking quite at peak at 32 years of age. It had such a lovely nose - red apples, yeast, fresh bread, all laced with just taht little oxidative egde in the form of savoury, ciderish aromas. The palate was soft, rounded, and ripe, but still showed a lovely balance in its mature flavours of honeysuckle, orange blossom and honey, all dancing a round a core of red apples and preserved lemons. The mousse had been tamed after all these years, but there was a lovely bit of juicy acidity to this, all very nicely integrated, though still fresh enough to give the wine some persistence as it glided away into gliding away into a minerally tail. Not super long at the finish, but decent enough. With time, in the glass, all sorts of little complexities started emerging - butter, nuttiness, some saline notes, a bit of mushrooms, all playing against those lovely matured notes of apples and honey. Such a lovely drop this. I am glad we caught it at its apogee.

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