The 1990 Richebourg from DRC is another excellent example of the vintage, but the ripeness of the year here has given the wine a more advanced profile than many of the other wines from the domaine in this vintage. The...
The 1990 Richebourg from DRC is another excellent example of the vintage, but the ripeness of the year here has given the wine a more advanced profile than many of the other wines from the domaine in this vintage. The bouquet is deep and beautiful in its mélange of raspberries, red plums, venison, coffee, woodsmoke, spice tones, a bit of acorn and a lovely soil signature that is already getting quite autumnal and redolent of fallen leaves. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied and again, quite broad-shouldered, with a plump core, fine complexity and length and a very long, modestly tannic and well-balanced finish. Good juice in a vintage that seems tailor-made for this cru.