Lot 174
CHÂTEAU LYNCH-BAGES 1989 (1) WA 95
CHÂTEAU PICHON-LONGUEVILLE BARON 1989 (1) WA 95
Lot 174 Details
CHÂTEAU LYNCH-BAGES 1989 (1)
Pauillac. 5ième Cru Classé
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I have tasted the Château Lynch Bages 1989 several times since my last penned note in 2010. It is such a consistent wine, a Pauillac that never lets you down. Here it continues to sport a relatively backward blackberry and cedar scented nose, the graphite (pencil box) element a little more accentuated. The aromatic purr like a Bentley, unraveling with each swirl of the glass. The palate is very well defined with a rigid structure, well-judged acidity and hints of chestnut and cooked meat offering secondary notes on the dense finish that suggest a long drinking plateau. What a stupendous wine from Jean-Michel Cazes! Tasted June 2014. Drink: 2014-2030 WA 95
CHÂTEAU PICHON-LONGUEVILLE BARON 1989 (1)
Pauillac. 2ième Cru Classé
The dense, full-bodied 1989 is brilliantly made with huge, smoky, chocolatey, cassis aromas intermingled with scents of toasty oak. Well-layered, with a sweet inner-core of fruit, this awesomely endowed, backward, tannic, prodigious 1989 needs another 5-6 years of cellaring; it should last for three decades or more. It is unquestionably a great Pichon-Longueville-Baron. February 199 WA 95