1990 Bordeaux Dinner

The Bristol - Chicago IL
Tasted Wednesday, March 11, 2020 by Burgundy Al with 308 views

Flight 1 - Champagne to Start (3 Notes)

Flight 2 - Blind Flight #1 (4 Notes)

  • 1990 Château Léoville Poyferré 94 Points

    France, Bordeaux, Médoc, St. Julien

    Single blind at 1990 Bordeaux dinner. Wow, what a surprising treat! Bright and powerful with so much elegance and finesse. I thought this from Pauillac with cassis, ripe black cherry and plum, complex cigarbox and impressive depth. Very impressed when unveiled as Léoville Poyferré. In my "top 5" tonight.

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  • 1990 Château Léoville Las Cases 96 Points

    France, Bordeaux, Médoc, St. Julien

    Single blind at 1990 Bordeaux dinner. Also clearly Left Bank, and I thought Pauillac (oops, thought Latour) with intense concentration and richness, yet refined balance. Very powerful and long. Great now, with upside.

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  • 1990 Château L'Evangile 89 Points

    France, Bordeaux, Libournais, Pomerol

    Single blind at 1990 Bordeaux dinner. Darn, this seemed ripe but slightly tiring. I think I gave this too much air because of schedule problems (open 4 hours, 1 in decanter). Still on the rugged side.

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  • 1990 Château Beausejour (Duffau Lagarrosse) Flawed

    France, Bordeaux, Libournais, St. Émilion Grand Cru

    Single blind at 1990 Bordeaux dinner. Some thought this was simply getting tired, but that viewpoint just ignored that this bottle was lethargic, stewy and seemingly heat damaged.

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Flight 3 - Blind Flight #2 (4 Notes)

  • 1990 Château Lynch-Bages 92 Points

    France, Bordeaux, Médoc, Pauillac

    Single blind at 1990 Bordeaux dinner. Meaty and powerful, this showed lots of ripe, rich black fruit with spice hints, but is not particularly elegant. I do not expect any further upside.

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  • 1990 Château Pichon-Longueville Baron

    France, Bordeaux, Médoc, Pauillac

    Single blind at 1990 Bordeaux dinner. I haven't had this wine in 5 years, but tonight's bottle was very disappointing. Started out rich and spicy, but clunky. less interesting 30 minutes later. Odd bottle? Too much air?

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  • 1990 Château Mouton Rothschild 90 Points

    France, Bordeaux, Médoc, Pauillac

    Single blind at 1990 Bordeaux dinner. Brawny, meaty and backward with powerful fruit but too much tannin for that fruit, at least for today. I think there is upside, but am not 100% confident. Slightly drying finish.

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  • 1990 Château Latour Grand Vin 94 Points

    France, Bordeaux, Médoc, Pauillac

    Single blind at 1990 Bordeaux dinner. Easily, without doubt the class of the flight. Meaty and dense with ripe black fruit and cigarbox character, but also great balance and elegance. Not the best example of this wine I have ever tasted, but certainly better than others, like one late last year.

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Flight 4 - Blind Flight #3 (3 Notes)

  • 1990 Château Montrose 94 Points

    France, Bordeaux, Médoc, St. Estèphe

    Single blind at 1990 Bordeaux dinner. Nothing subtle or restrained here, this is rich, dense and meaty, Most were able to correctly identify this as the Montrose give the three remaining wines. Easily showing best tonight of the flight tonight, almost as good as a few better bottles from the recent past.

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  • 1990 Château Haut-Brion 91 Points

    France, Bordeaux, Graves, Pessac-Léognan

    Single blind at 1990 Bordeaux dinner. Complex combination of mature/ripe black fruit, earth, leather and savory spice. Good+ depth and concentration with a good minerally finish. Just more fresh fruit would have helped. Not nearly as good as another bottle at a tasting last month.

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  • 1990 Château La Mission Haut-Brion

    France, Bordeaux, Graves, Pessac-Léognan

    Single blind at 1990 Bordeaux dinner. Was this a flawed/ tired bottle? Not nearly as tired as the first bottle that was opened and clearly heat damaged, but this also came across as tired and past its peak. I haven't had this wine in almost five years, but I expected more based on prior experience.

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Flight 5 - Then d'Yquem (1 Note)

  • 1990 Château d'Yquem 94 Points

    France, Bordeaux, Sauternais, Sauternes

    Best bottle of this wine I have had in at least 5 years. Intrinsic sweetness and botrytis complexity play off each other wonderfully with fresh and dried apricot. Very good+ weight and depth.

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