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Vintage | 1989 |
Rating | 90-94 |
Region | Bordeaux |
Appellation | Pomerol |
Colour | Red |
Volume | 0.75 l |
Price | From 200 € to 300 € |
Château | Evangile (L') |
Country | France |
Pauillac
Pessac Leognan
Pomerol
Pauillac
CHÂTEAU HAUT-BAGES AVEROUS 1989
Pauillac
Morey Saint Denis
Haut Medoc
Haut Medoc
Châteauneuf du Pape
Finely crafted traditional wine. Intense aromas of blackberry, cherry and tobacco. Full-bodied, with lots of tobacco and ripe fruit and velvety tannins.-1989 Bordeaux horizontal. Best after 2001.
For me, the big surprises are the best bottles of 1989 L'Evangile. More forward, and revealing more maturity than the 1990, the dark rubypurple-colored 1989 (some amber is just beginning to creep in at the edge) offers an exotic, sweet, chocolatey, toffee, roasted herb-scented nose, thick, fat, ripe flavors, low acidity, and far more complexity and richness than I had originally imagined. This delicious wine is close to full maturity - perhaps that is why it is beginning to perform so well. This looks to be a terrific L'Evangile that is significantly better than I may have led readers to believe when I first reported on it in 1990, and subsequently in 1991 and 1992. I would opt for drinking it over the next 10 years, as I do not believe it possesses nearly the aging potential, weight, or force of the 1990.