1990 Château La Grave a Pomerol Trigant de Boisset

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 91.3 points

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  4/24/2022 - Cailles wrote: 92 Points

  48x 1990 (37x Bdx, 6x Napa, 5x others): From magnum. Not a winery I’m familiar with, this was easy, quaffable, fun to drink. In its prime, with nice tertiary a notes and a melted structure as the highlights. 92/93 pts.
  
  TN: Quite undefined nose, some crushed rocks, faint hints of tobacco. All quite soft and without intensity or precision. On the palate this shows a superb freshness, good tension, slightly coarse tannins, fine creaminess, superb balance. Not so deep but with a beautifull sweetness and a nice tertiary, with some additions of herbs and stones and a nice, fruit-driven finish infused with tobacco notes.
  
  Decanting: Quick double decant roughly 4 hours before the tasting which was enough.

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  9/2/2020 - Vascular46 Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Past peak but still pleasurable

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  9/25/2019 - Lype Likes this wine:

  Sweet berries on the nose, on the palate smoke, tar, liquorice and herbs wrapped in a sweet package, hints of pine cones, lowish acidity, fairly nice still but a tad soft and gradually going downhill, would have worked better as a standalone bottle, now this one was overshadowed by the the rivals in the tasting (Chateau Certan, Clinet, La Fleur de Gay, La Croix de Gay).

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  1/11/2018 - gutt22 Likes this wine:

  Good solid red color, with light bricking at the edge of the glass. Slightly herbal nose but also packing a healthy dose of fruit still. In the mouth, fully resolved, with good cassis, cedar, herbal, and black cherry notes, mixing with dried flowers and earth. Smooth palate. Just a nice, refined Bordeaux at peak maturity but not yet at full stretch. A-

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  12/19/2009 - carnyc wrote: 91 Points

  Tasted at Clo:
  
  Everything that the 1998 La Fleur Petrus was, only toned down. Overall, a really nice experience and the wine seems to have plenty of time left.

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