The 1989 Chasse-Spleen offers chestnut and black truffle on the nose, with a touch of dried blood, comfortably revealing in its secondary aromas. The palate is wonderfully balanced, the dusty black fruit laced with cedar...

Gorgeous aromas of crushed berries cinnamon and plum. Full-bodied very silky and very seductive. Wonderful wine.--'95/'96 Bordeaux retrospective. Drink now. 27830 cases made. –JS

I adored Poujeaux back in the decade of the 1980s, when it was one of the greatest steals to be found on the Left Bank, and the 1985 showed beautifully at our big tasting of the vintage here in New York in October. The...