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Château Beauséjour-Duffau-Lagarrosse--Vintage 1990

12 bottles per lot
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Château Beauséjour-Duffau-Lagarrosse--Vintage 1990
Saint-Emilion, 1er grand cru classé (B)
Glue stained and three slightly damaged labels in lot 918
In original wooden cases
Tasting note: I have had the 1990 Beausejour-Duffau a half-dozen times since the in-the-bottle report in Issue 85 (2-28-93). I believe this wine may, in 15-20 years, be considered to be one of the greatest wines made this century. It is in a league with such legends as the 1961 Latour a Pomerol. Beausejour-Duffau's 1990 has always been the most concentrated wine of the 1990 vintage. The colour remains an opaque murky purple. The nose offers up fabulously intense aromas of black fruits (plums, cherries, and currants), along with smoke, a roasted herb/nut component, and a compelling minerality. The wine is fabulously concentrated, with outstanding purity, and a nearly unprecedented combination of richness, complexity, and overall balance and harmony. What makes this effort so intriguing is that as good as Beausejour-Duffau can be, I know of no vintage of this estate's wine that has come remotely close to this level of quality. In several blind tastings, I have mistaken this wine for either the 1989 or 1990 Pétrus! However, the 1990 Beausejour-Duffau is even more concentrated than those two prodigious efforts. It should be at its best between 2000-2030.
Robert Parker, Wine Advocate 109, Feb 1997.
See also lot 350.
12 bottles per lot
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