90-94 / 100
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Cap Slightly damaged
Level Top-shoulder ( - )
Vintage | 1990 |
Rating | 90-94 |
Classification | Médoc - 5ème Cru Classé |
Region | Bordeaux |
Appellation | Pauillac |
Colour | Red |
Volume | 0.75 l |
Price | More than 300 € |
New | yes |
Château | Lynch Bages |
Country | France |
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Fine and silky wine, with lots of finesse and structure. Long and racy. Age this for as long as you like.
This wine has provided terrific drinking since it was bottled. It may turn out to be a vintage such as 1982, which never shut down. The dark plumpurple color reveals some lightening at the edge. A big, sweet, plum, licorice, beef blood, and jammy cassis-scented bouquet with smoked herbs and new wood in the background soars from the glass. Enjoyable and accessible, this low acid, concentrated, velvety-textured wine continues to offer sumptuous drinking.
Still deeply coloured; a whiff of menthol; good flesh and flavour.