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  • 1990
  • Red
  • Bordeaux
  • France
  • 750ml
  • Mixed Lots
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Lot 102

1990 Chateau Pichon Baron, Chateau Lynch Bages and Chateau La Fleur de Gay - 3 bottle(s)-750ml

Estimate: CAD$1,300 - CAD$1,800
Current Bid
CAD$1,100
$808.82

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This lot is comprised of 3 bottle(s) of 1990 Chateau Pichon Baron, Chateau Lynch Bages and Chateau La Fleur de Gay - 750ml. Estimate for this lot is between $1300 - $1800 with a reserve of $950. The wine in this lot belongs to collection 11711. In this lot 1 bottle of 1990 Chateau Pichon Longueville Baron Pauillac (750ml), 1 bottle of 1990 Chateau Lynch Bages Pauillac (750ml), 1 bottle of 1990 Chateau La Fleur de Gay Pomerol (750ml).

Condition

Please note the following conditions in this lot - Scuffed Label on 1990 Chateau Pichon Longueville Baron Pauillac. Stained Label on 1990 Chateau Lynch Bages Pauillac. Stained Label on 1990 Chateau La Fleur de Gay Pomerol.

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This consignor, with a European background, grew up with wine as a staple of the family dinner table. What started as a childhood tradition evolved into a genuine interest by the time he was 20, and even now, decades later, he remains just as passionate about it. He built much of his collection while living in Europe during the 90s, sourcing bottles during his travels and through the SAQ. Throughout the years, he has been careful to keep his wines in a cellar with constant temperature and humidity. The quality of the bottles today and their fill levels clearly show the care he took in storing them properly.
1990 Chateau Pichon Longueville Baron Pauillac from this lot has the following scores - The Wine Advocate 98 points, Jeb Dunnuck 98 points, Jeff Leve The Wine Cellar Insider 98 points, The Wine Front 97 points, Adrian van Velsen - vvWine.ch 97 points, Vinous 96 points. This is the tasting note for 1990 Chateau Pichon Longueville Baron Pauillac from Robert Parker - The 1990 Pichon-Longueville Baron has always been one of my benchmark wines, one that never ceases to perform. Now at 27 years of age, it is clearly at its peak, and what a wondrous thing it is. Now showing some bricking on the rim, the bouquet is utterly sublime, with red berries, cedar, touches of graphite, crushed rose petals and incense. You just want to become enveloped by these aromas. The palate is perfectly balanced, perhaps not as structured as it once showed since the tannins have mellowed, but what you get is a Pauillac relishing its secondary phase, which is almost Burgundy-like in terms of mouthfeel. Suffused with tension, it gains weight in the mouth toward the slightly tart finish. It is a Pichon Baron that only knows how to give sophisticated drinking pleasure. I once wrote that Pichon Baron is better than many 1990 First Growth, and that is a statement I have no reason to change. Tasted April 2017. 1990 Chateau La Fleur de Gay Pomerol from this lot has the following scores - Wine Spectator 96 points. 1990 Chateau Lynch Bages Pauillac from this lot has the following scores - The Wine Advocate 99 points, Vinous 97 points, Jeff Leve The Wine Cellar Insider 97 points. This is the tasting note for 1990 Chateau Lynch Bages Pauillac from Robert Parker - The 1990 Lynch-Bages continues to drink brilliantly at age 32, bursting from the glass with rich aromas of blackberries and crème de cassis mingled with cigar wrapper, loamy soil, burning embers, nori and subtle hints of sweet leather. Full-bodied, broad and fleshy, it's unctuous and enveloping, with a generous core of fruit, sweet but still present tannins and a long, expansive finish. I have always tended to compare the 1990 and 1989 Lynch-Bages, and both wines are among the finest produced in Bordeaux in those years, embarrassing several of the first growths