6 bottles per lot
Details
Le Pin--Vintage 1990
Pomerol
In original wooden case without lid
Tasting note: My second highest mark in a 'flight' which included Ch Pétrus, Latour, La Fleur and La Tâche at the world's top '90s blind tasting in June 1996: sweet, lovely nose, perfect weight and flavour, well integrated tannins and acidity (Guigal's La Turque beat it by half a point). Later that year, showing well again trounced by La Turque and another Hermitage wine, Erimitage Le Pavillon. **** M.B.
This is among the most profound Le Pins made to date. The wine exhibits a dense, dark ruby/plum colour, a spectacular, hedonistic aromatic profile consisting of exotic spices, jammy kirsch and other black fruits intermixed with lavish quantities of pain grille. On the palate, the wine is a velvety-textured fruit bomb with layers of concentration, fabulous ripeness, copious glycerin, and well-integrated sweet tannin. It is a decadently rich, voluptuously-textured, full-bodied wine that is impossible to resist, even though it is still an infant in terms of development. Anticipated maturity: Now-2012. Last tasted 12/96. 98 Points. Robert Parker. Bordeaux Book 3rd Edition (1998)
6 bottles per lot
Pomerol
In original wooden case without lid
Tasting note: My second highest mark in a 'flight' which included Ch Pétrus, Latour, La Fleur and La Tâche at the world's top '90s blind tasting in June 1996: sweet, lovely nose, perfect weight and flavour, well integrated tannins and acidity (Guigal's La Turque beat it by half a point). Later that year, showing well again trounced by La Turque and another Hermitage wine, Erimitage Le Pavillon. **** M.B.
This is among the most profound Le Pins made to date. The wine exhibits a dense, dark ruby/plum colour, a spectacular, hedonistic aromatic profile consisting of exotic spices, jammy kirsch and other black fruits intermixed with lavish quantities of pain grille. On the palate, the wine is a velvety-textured fruit bomb with layers of concentration, fabulous ripeness, copious glycerin, and well-integrated sweet tannin. It is a decadently rich, voluptuously-textured, full-bodied wine that is impossible to resist, even though it is still an infant in terms of development. Anticipated maturity: Now-2012. Last tasted 12/96. 98 Points. Robert Parker. Bordeaux Book 3rd Edition (1998)
6 bottles per lot
Special notice
Offered duty paid, but available in bond. VAT at 17.5% will be charged on the hammer price on removal of the lot from bond.