Po's 1990 Bordeaux Dinner

La Trompette, Chiswick
Tasted Thursday, October 14, 2021 by Paul D with 265 views

Flight 1 - With crab and corn bread (1 Note)

Flight 2 - With sweetbreads, hen of the woods, white truffle. (3 Notes)

  • 1990 Château Haut-Bailly 93 Points

    France, Bordeaux, Graves, Pessac-Léognan

    Lightly smoky, minerally, spicy red fruit, a touch reserved on the nose. Medium bodied, red fruit, spice, touch of firm but fine tannin still, vibrant acidity, quite linear, decent length. Excellent, drinking well though absolutely no hurry

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  • 1990 Château Pape Clément 94 Points

    France, Bordeaux, Graves, Pessac-Léognan

    Classic Graves nose - warm earth, tobacco, smoke. Medium bodied, tobacco, earth, some underlying mainly red berry fruit, soft and harmonious, fresh acidity, finish is quite long. Lovely.

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  • 1990 Château Clerc Milon 89 Points

    France, Bordeaux, Médoc, Pauillac

    Dark fruited, spice, green pepper. Hand-soap? Medium bodied, cool dark fruit, quite linear, vibrant acidity, good length finish. Overall very good if not in line with expectations.

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Flight 3 - With duck, five spice, golden turnip (4 Notes)

  • 1990 Château L'Evangile 90 Points

    France, Bordeaux, Libournais, Pomerol

    Medium bodied, quite savoury and spicy, red fruited, harmonious and balanced on the palate, a touch drying perhaps on the finish but overall very enjoyable.

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  • 1990 Château Trotanoy 95 Points

    France, Bordeaux, Libournais, Pomerol

    Nose shows red fruit, spice, earth, palate is sensuous and caressing with red fruit, spice, earth, vibrant acidity, long, harmonious finish. Outstanding, drinking beautifully.

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  • 1990 Château Pichon-Longueville Baron 93 Points

    France, Bordeaux, Médoc, Pauillac

    Rich, quite youthful nose, ripe dark fruit, cedar, touch of vanilla. Medium/full bodied, ripe, sensuous dark fruit, cedar again, soft tannins, fresh acidity, long finish. Lovely.

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  • 1990 Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande 91 Points

    France, Bordeaux, Médoc, Pauillac

    Aromatic, fragrant, red fruit, florals. Medium bodied, spicy red fruit, pencil lead, floats attractively across the palate, vibrant acidity, medium-good length finish. Relatively light but quite classy and certainly enjoyable.

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Flight 4 - With Freisian cote de bouef (5 Notes)

  • 1990 Château Léoville Barton 91 Points

    France, Bordeaux, Médoc, St. Julien

    Some red and black berry fruit here, a little restrained this bottle perhaps, some cedar coming through on the palate which is harmonious but not overly long or complex.

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  • 1990 Château Léoville Las Cases 95 Points

    France, Bordeaux, Médoc, St. Julien

    Lovely, textbook medoc nose, blackcurrant fruit, smoke, gravelly minerals. Medium/full bodied on the palate, dark fruit, smoke, mineral, a thread of fine tannin still, vibrant acidity, this has drive and excellent length. Outstanding, drinking now but with many years ahead of it.

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  • 1990 Château Montrose

    France, Bordeaux, Médoc, St. Estèphe

    Bottle #1 (smoke damaged). Had an odd, rotten seaweed aroma which was difficult to get past. A bit better on the palate but certainly not what it should be. NR

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  • 1990 Château Montrose 94 Points

    France, Bordeaux, Médoc, St. Estèphe

    Bottle #2. Youthful, blackcuurant fruit, cedar, touch of gravel. Medium/full bodied, quite mouth-filling with lovely presence, dark fruit, spice, mineral, fresh acidity, quite long too. Lovely, no hurry

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  • 1990 Château Cos d'Estournel 91 Points

    France, Bordeaux, Médoc, St. Estèphe

    slightly quiet at first, then opening to reveal dark fruit, some exotic spice, quite rich with a touch of smoke too. Attractive and mouth-filling on initial entry, has soft tannins and fresh acidity but perhaps flatters to deceive a little as it falls away a touch on the finish.

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Flight 5 - With Cox's pippin tarte tatin, chantilly (2 Notes)

  • 1990 Château Guiraud 88 Points

    France, Bordeaux, Sauternais, Sauternes

    Broad and rich, mature fruit, barley-sugar, with decent contrasting acidity but not much complexity

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  • 1990 Château Climens 90 Points

    France, Bordeaux, Sauternais, Barsac

    This again was quite mature with a rich, barley sugar nose, there was some orangey freshness about this though and it had better length and definition on the palate than the Guiraud.

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