Wine Spectator: A kiss of toast gives way to nicely firm flavors of tobacco, red currant and iron, which stay slightly taut through the finish. Merlot, Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon. ...

Alexandra Fondren: Medium garnet core fades to a brick rim. Though it takes some coaxing, with air the bouquet reveals dried plum and black cherry, along with tobacco, savory mushroom and roaste...

Ryan Moses: Gorgeous color, with a clear garnet core that fades gently into a copper rim. The nose is dominated by intense black tea leaf, currant, juicy red cherry, cinnamon and tobacco....

Alexandra Fondren: Medium garnet core fades to a brick rim. Though it takes some coaxing, with air the bouquet reveals dried plum and black cherry, along with tobacco, savory mushroom and roaste...

Alexandra Fondren: Medium garnet core fades to a brick rim. Though it takes some coaxing, with air the bouquet reveals dried plum and black cherry, along with tobacco, savory mushroom and roaste...

Alexandra Fondren: Medium garnet core fades to a brick rim. Though it takes some coaxing, with air the bouquet reveals dried plum and black cherry, along with tobacco, savory mushroom and roaste...

Alexandra Fondren: Medium garnet core fades to a brick rim. Though it takes some coaxing, with air the bouquet reveals dried plum and black cherry, along with tobacco, savory mushroom and roaste...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Lafite's light-bodied 1991 possesses moderate ruby color, a solid innercore of fruit, as well as potentially excessive tannin for its size and constitution. The wine exhibits...

Wine Spectator: Complex, deftly balanced and well-focused on a core of currant, green olive, sage and cedary tobacco notes, the mix of earthy-minerally flavors on the finish adds dimension...

About this Wine: Its firm, well-rounded tannins offer a smoothness ever present over the years. Being highly concentrated, it can be left to age  for many years...

Wine Spectator: Very pretty nose, with chocolate and raspberry and a touch of sweet tobacco. Medium-bodied, with silky tannins and a delicate fruit, light earth and chocolate aftertaste.-'88/...

Wine Spectator: More flesh than grip, with mulled plum and blackberry fruit laid over graphite and cedar hints. There's a flash of tobacco, though the mulled fruit is the main feature. Drink ...

Wine Spectator: This has a good briary frame that adds vivacity to the core of loganberry and plum fruit, with a licorice snap edge enlivening the finish. Juicy and fun, with good stuffing on...

Wine Spectator: Impressive. Beautiful plum, berry, tobacco, cedar and toasted oak aromas and flavors, medium body and tannins and a succulent finish. Drinkable now.

Wine Spectator: Balanced and harmonious for the vintage with a cherry, plum and tobacco character, fine tannins and a fresh finish. Delicious now, but best in 1999. 25,000 cases made.

Wine Spectator: Balanced and harmonious for the vintage with a cherry, plum and tobacco character, fine tannins and a fresh finish. Delicious now, but best in 1999. 25,000 cases made.

Wine Spectator: Balanced and harmonious for the vintage with a cherry, plum and tobacco character, fine tannins and a fresh finish. Delicious now, but best in 1999. 25,000 cases made.

Wine Spectator: An elegant wine, with a lovely balance of blackberry and tobacco flavors and soft, silky tannins. Not a blockbuster, but well proportioned. Best after 1996. -JS

Wine Spectator: Smoky, with bay, tobacco and briary followed by roasted fig and mulled plum notes, which all meld through the medium-bodied finish. Approachable now. Drink now through 2016. -...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Bright, dark red. Redcurrant, tobacco and menthol on the nose. Broad, sweet and fairly full in the mouth, with a fine grain to the flavors of currant, tobacco, herbs and earth...