Wine

Item Description

3 bottles of Bordeaux wines: (1) Pichon-Longueville Baron, Pauillac 1990
(2) Pavie, 1st Grand Cru, St Emilioe 1990 and
(3) Lafon Rochet Saint Estephe 1990.
Description #1: A top-class Bordeaux has been the 1990 Pichon-Longueville-Baron. This vintage exhibits opaque, dense purple colors that suggest massive wines of considerable extraction and richness. This vintage exhibits more of the roasted overripeness of this vintage, but it manages to keep everything in perspective. The wine is opulent and flamboyant, with lower acidity, and noticeably less tannin than the 1989. It is equally concentrated, with a more evolved nose of cedar, black fruits, earth, minerals, and spices. On the palate, the wine offers sensational quantities of jammy fruit, glycerin, wood, and sweet tannin. Drink now as well as over the next 20+ years.
Description #2: The impressive 1990 Pavie exhibits a deeper, more saturated ruby/garnet color, as well as a sweeter, more expressive bouquet of truffles, Asian spices, black-cherries, and smoked herbs. Full-bodied and powerful, with a meaty, beef blood-like richness, this is an intense, deep, concentrated, muscular St.-Emilion. Should drink well through 2018.
Description #3: Very dark ruby, with a tightly knit nose of black fruits, this massively endowed wine is one of the most powerful and concentrated Lafon-Rochets you'll taste. Should drink well through 2022. 3 bottles: France Bordeaux Pauillac (Retail Value Range: $190 to $240); 1990 Pichon-Longueville-Baron 96 Parker; : One of the finest values in top-class Bordeaux has been the 1990 Pichon-Longueville-Baron. The 1990 vintage exhibits opaque, dense purple colors that suggest massive wines of considerable extraction and richness. The 1990 Pichon-Longueville-Baron exhibits more of the roasted overripeness of this vintage, but it manages to keep everything in perspective. The wine is opulent and flamboyant, with lower acidity, and noticeably less tannin than the 1989. It is equally concentrated, with a more evolved nose of cedar, black fruits, earth, minerals, and spices. On the palate, the wine offers sensational quantities of jammy fruit, glycerin, wood, and sweet tannin. It is far more fun to taste and drink (more hedonistic perhaps) than the more structured, backward, yet exceptional 1989. Drink now as well as over the next 20+ years.

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