1990 Gagnard-Delagrange Montrachet

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 92.4 points

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  3/10/2022 - hprphf wrote: 90 Points

  Prominent orange rind acidity. Good richness on the palate. 90

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  1/27/2013 - Alex H wrote: 90 Points

  Creamy rich sweet wafer oaky caramel rich popcorn. Delicious. Sparkling fresh minerality but more powerful type with waxy full mouthfeel

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  1/25/2013 - steinersing Likes this wine: 93 Points

  At M B'day. Wow what a presence this wine has. Fat and compact. Great lengths. More power than elegance. Years to go.

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  1/22/2013 - Paul S wrote: 94 Points

  Martin's Birthday Bash (Gallery Hotel, Singapore): On a night with many great reds, it was this white that stole the show. While not quite the perfect Monty, it was great enough a wine to win the entire table's unanimous vote as WOTN. It had a wonderful nose. Instead of fruit, we got layer after later of toffee and caramel popcorn, burnt sugar and vanilla bean - almost like a Creme Brulee - coconut and coffee candy, with just that touch of white plum aromas at the bouquet's very core. Complex, characterful, intriguing, this was a world away from the toasty popcorn parodies brought on by lashings of new oak; instead, it smelt like everything you would imagine a fully matured Burgundy from a warm year like 1990 would be. Beautiful. I was happy just sniffing that in the glass, but one had to get on to the actual drinking! The palate was rich and ripe, with deep, powerful flavours of white fruit and white peach, again wed to lovely sweet notes of toffee and caramel. There was a lot of brute strength and warm ripeness about this wine, so that it came across rather masculine, even brawny, yet it was thankfully underpinned by a tremendous freshness and balance so that there was not an ounce of flab on it. Great finish, very together, very integrated, with its lovely length sprinkled with sweet notes of caramelised nuts. Perhaps the only issue I was that it was not the most precise or focused wine, so that a few of us guessed that it was a Batard-Montrachet rather than the full Monty when blinded, especially given the raw power on the wine. Still though, this was beautiful wine, one that was more than fit to grace the occasion. Good now, it will probably hold for the next few years and more.

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  12/4/2010 - Vinomane wrote: 95 Points

  A perfect wine. Forward oak blows off quickly to reveal a drink of consummate balance. Here's the quiet one in the corner left standing all the hotshots have exhausted their tricks and grown tiresome. Still young now, will last indefinitely.

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