Bought from the winery in 1990/91. Stored passively since. I didn't hold up many hopes for this. But what a surprise! The colour showed a good deal of age: a bit of a brown tinge on the red, with obvious oranging towards the rim. Good cassis on the nose; not especially fragrant. Elegant and claret-like on the palate, with just a hint of sweetness on the finish to suggest its new world origins; quite herbal, minty.

Typically pale red colour, bricking towards rim. Fabulously sexy nose, spicey and classically Musar, though others thought Zin (Ridge Geyserville was one suggestion). Lush sweet evolved palate. Reminds me how good Musar can be.

Good Pinot aroma profile, lots of balls, and a lot of sweet caramel-toffeed oak. Goes down well in the mouth, but I and others left the oak was a bit heavy-handed. Still, a nice drop. New Zealand and Australia were the guesses.

Initial sulphur on the nose put others off this at first. But I immediately fell for the dark stone fruit, a satiny mouth feel. Great ripeness of fruit, but still obviously the product of a cool vintage. I loved it. (Oh, and the sulphur blew off too.)

Bought from the winery in June 2006. Bright purply red colour. Youthful strawberry fruit, a bit jammy, and green tinged, maybe cranberries; something a bit artificial. A good core of fruit on the palate, but again somewhat green tinged; green capsicum flavours not integrating well with a sugary sweetness. Interestingly, all the others thought this Burgundy, probably Cote de Beaune (though "not a good Cote de Beaune").

A bit of a barnyard stink to begin with, but that soon blew off and this developed impressively in the glass. Dartk stone fruits on nose and palate, but with a bit of nervosity and grip, and a lovely ethereal sweetness on the nose and on the finish.A wine really hitting its stride. Perhaps the group favourite of this flight.

This showed a good deal more impressively than the last time I noted it. Deep golden colour. Ripe exotic fruit on the nose. We disagreed whether it showed much botrytis - I thought not, but it certainly made up for that in ripeness, fruit flavour and sweetness. Very good grip on the palate. Rich and mouthfilling. One guess around the table was Rieussec, then Paul hit the nail on the head. Lafaurie 98, we heard, was reputed to be Sauternes of the vintage behind Rieussec. (I didn't ask if that was supposed to include Yquem.) Whatever - this was a seriously good way to end a great evening.