1989

More Burgundian than Bordeaux in color and density but delivers pretty berry tobacco and leather character. Medium-bodied round and silky with plenty of opulent fruit. This needs drinking.—'89/'99 Bordeaux blind retrospective... Read More

One of the great modern-day Bordeaux the 1989 Clinet still has a saturated purple color and a sweet nose of creme de cassis intermixed with incense licorice smoke and mineral. As the wine sits in the glass more blueberry and blackberry... Read More

One of the high points of this vertical tasting the 1989 d'Yquem is a magical wine offering up a complex refined bouquet with aromas of quince apricot pineapple menthol flowers and white truffles followed by a full-bodied... Read More

This continues to be one of the immortal wines and one of the greatest young Bordeaux wines of the last half-century. Consistently prodigious and almost a sure bet to top the scoring card of any blind tasting of this vintage as... Read More

This continues to be one of the immortal wines and one of the greatest young Bordeaux wines of the last half-century. Consistently prodigious and almost a sure bet to top the scoring card of any blind tasting of this vintage as... Read More

Both the 1989 and 1990 vintages exhibit opaque dense purple colors that suggest massive wines of considerable extraction and richness. The dense full-bodied 1989 is brilliantly made with huge smoky chocolatey cassis aromas intermingled... Read More

This wine is more tightly knit more tannic but every bit the blockbuster concentrated effort that its younger sibling the 1990 is. It seems to need more coaxing from the glass but the color is virtually identical a dense ruby/purple... Read More